{"id":93816,"date":"2014-05-05T21:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93816"},"modified":"2014-05-05T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T04:07:43","slug":"motorcycle-cannonball-bakers-coast-to-coast-motorcycle-run-is-re-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93816","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; &#8216;Cannonball&#8217; Baker&#8217;s coast-to-coast motorcycle run is re-created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One hundred years ago\u00a0last weekend a prehistoric motorcycle nut named Erwin George Baker set out on a solo ride from San Diego, headed for New York, astride a prehistoric Indian two-wheeler. He made the trip in 11 days, earning him the nickname &#8220;Cannonball&#8221; Baker and assuring his place in pioneering motorcycle history.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday a group of die-hard motorcycle enthusiasts set out from the same spot in San Diego, at the same hour, in an attempt to match Cannonball Baker&#8217;s historic run.<\/p>\n<p>They were led by decorated modern motorcyclist Don Emde.<\/p>\n<p>Emde entered the motorcycle record books by\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos\/la-fi-hy-cannonball-baker-100th-anniversary-motorcycle-20140505,0,7550990.story#axzz30u6DeWCM\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago\u00a0last weekend a prehistoric motorcycle nut named Erwin George Baker set out on a solo ride from San Diego, headed for New York, astride a prehistoric Indian two-wheeler. He made the trip in 11 days, earning him the nickname &#8220;Cannonball&#8221; Baker and assuring his place in pioneering motorcycle history. On Saturday a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93816","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=93816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93817,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93816\/revisions\/93817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}