{"id":94894,"date":"2014-06-05T06:35:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94894"},"modified":"2014-06-05T06:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:35:52","slug":"motorcycle-surviving-mad-sunday-and-the-deadliest-race-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94894","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Surviving &#8220;Mad Sunday,&#8221; and the deadliest race in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019ve never been swarmed by thousands of angry bees, but I guess this must be what it\u2019s like. A brief glance in my rear-view mirror tells a scary tale. They\u2019re everywhere. I look at the speedometer. It reads 130 mph \u2013 on a treacherous mountain pass, no less. Speed limits? There are none. This is \u201cMad Sunday\u201d during the Isle of Man TT. A time for mere mortals to venture onto the 37.7-mile course, likely hung-over, aboard two-wheeled missiles capable of 200 mph. It\u2019s fun to pretend you\u2019re John McGuiness or Joey Dunlop, at least for the day. But for me, rocketing down the country lane in my dad\u2019s two-seater sports car \u2013 with hedges, trees and quaint Manx pubs blurred beyond recognition \u2013 it\u2019s bloody terrifying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A group of six or seven bikers fly past\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/blogs\/motoramic\/surviving--mad-sunday---the-isle-of-man-tt-s-most-dangerous-day-174208040.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>I\u2019ve never been swarmed by thousands of angry bees, but I guess this must be what it\u2019s like. A brief glance in my rear-view mirror tells a scary tale. They\u2019re everywhere. I look at the speedometer. It reads 130 mph \u2013 on a treacherous mountain pass, no less. Speed limits? There are none. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,46,25,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing","category-sports-car","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94894","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=94894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94895,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94894\/revisions\/94895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}