{"id":90037,"date":"2014-02-01T20:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90037"},"modified":"2014-02-01T20:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T03:18:59","slug":"toddlers-take-on-extreme-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90037","title":{"rendered":"Toddlers take on extreme sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Children as young as two are hopping on BMX bikes, climbing rock walls and attempting skateboard manoeuvres in a quest for more adrenalin-pumping pastimes than kicking the footy or going for a swim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once the domain of pre-teens and adolescents, extreme sports report an influx of younger participants as the sports become safer and more widely available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8221;Extreme sport is seen by kids as cool and by parents as safe,&#8221; Monash University sports lecturer Tom Heenan said. &#8221;It&#8217;s lost its fear factor.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/toddlers-take-on-extreme-sports-20140201-31txp.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children as young as two are hopping on BMX bikes, climbing rock walls and attempting skateboard manoeuvres in a quest for more adrenalin-pumping pastimes than kicking the footy or going for a swim. Once the domain of pre-teens and adolescents, extreme sports report an influx of younger participants as the sports become safer and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5,6,63,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-board-sports","category-cycling","category-rock-climbing-mountain-climbing","category-skateboard-mountain-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90037","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=90037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90039,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90037\/revisions\/90039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}