{"id":411,"date":"2008-09-26T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/the-need-for-speed\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:26:21","slug":"the-need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/the-need-for-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The need for speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And he&#8217;s a Canadian as well!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/cars\/2008\/09\/worlds-fastest.html\">World&#8217;s Fastest Cyclist Hits 82.3 MPH | Autopia from Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sam Whittingham is the fastest cyclist on the planet, having pedaled his sleek recumbent bicycle to a stunning 82.3 mph to claim the world record for a human-powered vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The bike-builder from British Columbia bested his previous record of 81.02 mph during a picture-perfect run through the desert during the World Human Powered Speed Challenge outside Battle Mountain, Nevada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he&#8217;s a Canadian as well! World&#8217;s Fastest Cyclist Hits 82.3 MPH | Autopia from Wired.com Sam Whittingham is the fastest cyclist on the planet, having pedaled his sleek recumbent bicycle to a stunning 82.3 mph to claim the world record for a human-powered vehicle. The bike-builder from British Columbia bested his previous record of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}