{"id":8720,"date":"2009-04-10T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T05:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2009-04-10T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T05:08:32","slug":"cycling-road-lance-armstrong-living-strong-or-merely-holding-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8720","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Lance Armstrong: Living Strong or Merely Holding On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He sat on the side of a small goat path of a road,\u00c2\u00a0 with his left shoulder slumping, grimacing in pain.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was only the first day of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, a five-stage road race in northern Spain.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Near the end of the first stage, Lance Armstrong got caught in a funnel of riders jockeying for position, hit a rider in front of him and went flying over the handlebars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As he sat there, he later told the Associated Press via a teleconference from Austin, Texas, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You&#8217;re laying there, and you sort of ask yourself, &#8216;What the hell am I doing here?'&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Indeed, after three years of the bike, coming back to the sport he once dominated was proving to be a tougher task than he originally thought.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At 37 years old, the body&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/154047-live-strong-or-live-tarnished\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sat on the side of a small goat path of a road,\u00c2\u00a0 with his left shoulder slumping, grimacing in pain.\u00c2\u00a0 It was only the first day of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, a five-stage road race in northern Spain.\u00c2\u00a0 Near the end of the first stage, Lance Armstrong got caught in a funnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","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=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}