{"id":92225,"date":"2014-03-25T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92225"},"modified":"2014-03-25T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:24:15","slug":"motorcycle-roadracing-mike-the-bike-rides-again-the-tragic-story-of-mike-hailwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92225","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Roadracing &#8211; &#8216;Mike the Bike&#8217; rides again: The tragic story of Mike Hailwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mike Hailwood lies alongside his daughter, Michelle, in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene in the Warwickshire village of Tanworth-in-Arden. A black gravestone records the names and age of the two, the nine-year-old girl and her father, aged 40. There is also an inscription for each. Hailwood&#8217;s reads simply: &#8220;Too good in life to be forgotten in death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For Murray Walker, Hailwood \u2013 &#8220;Mike the Bike&#8221; as he was known \u2013 was a good deal better than even that. According to Walker, Mike Hailwood is the &#8220;greatest motorcycle rider who ever lived&#8221;. Walker was close to Hailwood but his judgement is not coloured by friendship \u2013 he is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/motor-racing\/mike-the-bike-rides-again-the-tragic-story-of-mike-hailwood-told-in-new-documentary-9215572.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>Mike Hailwood lies alongside his daughter, Michelle, in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene in the Warwickshire village of Tanworth-in-Arden. A black gravestone records the names and age of the two, the nine-year-old girl and her father, aged 40. There is also an inscription for each. Hailwood&#8217;s reads simply: &#8220;Too good in life to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92225","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=92225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92226,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92225\/revisions\/92226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}