{"id":92409,"date":"2014-03-30T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92409"},"modified":"2014-03-30T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:43:38","slug":"cycling-adventure-iowa-bike-racers-on-gravel-face-rocky-road-and-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92409","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Adventure Iowa: Bike racers on gravel face rocky road, and love it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This is Iowa, home to great numbers of bicycles, gravel roads and cold days, creating just the right challenges for the spring renegade sport of gravel racing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bicyclists gathered at a country tap on a late March Sunday. There\u2019s a shocker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But what was surprising to a group of plainclothes middle-age women also gathered at the Cumming Tap (for fun, their potluck snacks laid out in Tupperware on the bar), was that anyone would think it amusing to mount a bicycle and race 45 miles on gravel roads through brisk 20-degree air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They should have known\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20140327\/LIFE08\/303280026\/0\/DATEBOOK\/?odyssey=nav%7Chead\" 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>This is Iowa, home to great numbers of bicycles, gravel roads and cold days, creating just the right challenges for the spring renegade sport of gravel racing. Bicyclists gathered at a country tap on a late March Sunday. There\u2019s a shocker. But what was surprising to a group of plainclothes middle-age women also gathered at [&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-92409","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\/92409","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=92409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92411,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92409\/revisions\/92411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}