{"id":93691,"date":"2014-05-01T20:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93691"},"modified":"2014-05-01T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:08:33","slug":"mt-biking-opinion-how-to-save-downhill-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93691","title":{"rendered":"Mt Biking &#8211; Opinion: How To Save Downhill Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the last 10 years, a lot of speculation has been tossed around about the so-called &#8216;death of downhill&#8217;. With the emergence of &#8216;enduro&#8217; and the surge of popularity in slopestyle and freeride events such as RedBull Rampage, its impending death seems even more frequently mentioned, alongside words like &#8216;outdated&#8217;, &#8216;expensive&#8217; and &#8216;extreme&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, industry sponsors drop downhill-specific athletes over budgetary concerns, companies cut funding for races and downhill events, the entire mountain biking industry seems to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/news\/how-to-save-downhill-racing-2014.html?trk=rss\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 10 years, a lot of speculation has been tossed around about the so-called &#8216;death of downhill&#8217;. With the emergence of &#8216;enduro&#8217; and the surge of popularity in slopestyle and freeride events such as RedBull Rampage, its impending death seems even more frequently mentioned, alongside words like &#8216;outdated&#8217;, &#8216;expensive&#8217; and &#8216;extreme&#8217;. Every day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93691","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=93691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93692,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93691\/revisions\/93692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}