{"id":13673,"date":"2019-10-10T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/?p=13673"},"modified":"2019-09-28T09:25:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T13:25:54","slug":"throwback-thursday-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/throwback-thursday-249\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Innocence. No jumps. No tricks. No racing. Just that first feeling of &#8220;damn, these bikes are cool.&#8221; I was about 14 in this photo and this was an upgrade from my motomag goose of the year prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>This was state of art trickness in 1979-80. Before there is a drive to get better at what you do, there is that spark of &#8220;wow, this looks really neat&#8221;. This photo is that feeling.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose-133x160.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/me-on-Mongoose-167x200.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocence. No jumps. No tricks. No racing. Just that first feeling of &#8220;damn, these bikes are cool.&#8221; I was about 14 in this photo and this was an upgrade from my motomag goose of the year prior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,54],"tags":[120,80],"class_list":["post-13673","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\/13673"}],"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=13673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13679,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673\/revisions\/13679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}