{"id":86659,"date":"2013-11-11T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86659"},"modified":"2013-11-11T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T02:59:29","slug":"motocross-how-i-got-started-ricky-carmichael-g-o-a-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=86659","title":{"rendered":"Motocross &#8211; How I Got Started: Ricky Carmichael \u2013 G.O.A.T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00a0 <strong>Who was your first sponsor as an amateur and how did it all come about? <\/strong><br \/>\nMy mom and I did the whole thing of putting together resumes and mailing it out to sponsors. Unfortunately Hookit wasn&#8217;t around back then! My very first sponsor was Scott goggles. I remember even now how cool it was to be working with Bevo who was just the man back then and how cool and important I felt. I think I only got one or two sets of goggles and deals on product after that, but getting taken care of at the track with tear offs and support was just so cool. I was with them for four or five years and as everyone probably knows I&#8217;ve been with Oakley forever. I think I signed with Oakley in 1991 and have been with them ever since. They have just been awesome to work with throughout my entire career\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hookit.com\/news\/how-i-got-started-ricky-carmichael-goat-hookit-ambassador-\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00a0 Who was your first sponsor as an amateur and how did it all come about? My mom and I did the whole thing of putting together resumes and mailing it out to sponsors. Unfortunately Hookit wasn&#8217;t around back then! My very first sponsor was Scott goggles. I remember even now how cool it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86660,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659\/revisions\/86660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}