{"id":92183,"date":"2014-03-25T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92183"},"modified":"2014-03-25T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:27:25","slug":"fifty-years-of-women-in-motocross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92183","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Of Women In Motocross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The 70\u2019s: The Beginning<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The women in the United States had their first national event in 1974, dubbed the \u201cPowder Puff National Championship.\u201d This event brought out over 300 riders and over 9000 spectators, all eager to be a part of the rise and acceptance of women in the sport of motocross. The first national championship was won by Nancy Payne. The following year, the championship was renamed the Women\u2019s National Championship. By 1979, women\u2019s motocross had attracted enough attention it had caught the attention of ABC\u2019s Wide World of Sports who covered the national that year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Champions By Year 1974 \u2013 Nancy Payne 1975 \u2013 Sue Fish 1976 \u2013 Sue Fish 1977 \u2013 Sue Fish 1978 \u2013 Carey Steiner 1979 \u2013 Sue Fish<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The 80\u2019s: Acceptance<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By the 80\u2019s, women in motocross had\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/motocross.transworld.net\/1000159746\/features\/fifty-years-women-motocross\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>The 70\u2019s: The Beginning The women in the United States had their first national event in 1974, dubbed the \u201cPowder Puff National Championship.\u201d This event brought out over 300 riders and over 9000 spectators, all eager to be a part of the rise and acceptance of women in the sport of motocross. The first national [&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-92183","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\/92183","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=92183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92184,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92183\/revisions\/92184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}