{"id":12129,"date":"2019-01-03T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/?p=12129"},"modified":"2019-01-04T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:42:31","slug":"throwback-thursday-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/throwback-thursday-209\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my earliest &#8220;adventures&#8221; as a BMXer was getting lost in Plainfield, NJ on ride with my pals at the time. For those of you who know Plainfield, you know how it can be. Well&#8230;we wound up in a bad area and&#8230;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>that led to all of us getting mugged for our bikes. After several weeks of intimidation by my parents, the bikes were eventually returned. There&#8217;s a reason why their generation won WWII, and it wasn&#8217;t from backing down.<\/p>\n<p>For more BMX and brittle crazines pick up my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Average-BMXer-Brett-Middaugh-ebook\/dp\/B00FN8G5A8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Average BMXer\u201d available on Kindle<\/a>,\u00a0and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/brett-middaugh\/the-average-bmxer\/ebook\/product-21264201.html\">Lulu.com<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/brett-middaugh\/the-average-bmxer\/ebook\/product-21264201.html\">e-pub<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/brett-middaugh\/the-average-bmxer\/hardcover\/product-21223024.html\">Hardcover<\/a> form.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper-595x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper-595x1024.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper-87x150.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper-93x160.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper-116x200.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mugged-in-paper.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my earliest &#8220;adventures&#8221; as a BMXer was getting lost in Plainfield, NJ on ride with my pals at the time. For those of you who know Plainfield, you know how it can be. Well&#8230;we wound up in a bad area and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,54],"tags":[120,80],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-britty-blog","category-featured","category-the-average-bmxer","tag-brett-middaugh","tag-the-average-bmxer-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12174,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions\/12174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}