{"id":4554,"date":"2015-05-21T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middaugh.org\/mwp\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2015-06-10T00:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:23:18","slug":"throwback-thursday-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/throwback-thursday-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motomags. Holy crap. This right here is my first real BMX bike a Mongoose Motomag from Pete&#8217;s Bike Shop in Flemington, NJ. The shot is from what was then a vacant lot down the street from my home in Middlesex. They were building a house there and finishing up the cul de sac, so there was a little spot for a dirt jump. We made the best of it&#8230;The year is 1979. \u00a0For more of this craziness\u00a0pick up my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Average-BMXer-Brett-Middaugh-ebook\/dp\/B00FN8G5A8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Average BMXer&#8221; available on Kindle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Comp. II tires. Addicks Sprocket. Ashtabula cranks. Alloy Butterfly bars. Mongoose Gold Stem. Roger Decoster forks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4556\" src=\"http:\/\/middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"vacant lot sailing\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-60x61.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-158x160.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-197x200.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing-118x120.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vacant-lot-sailing.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motomags. Holy crap. This right here is my first real BMX bike a Mongoose Motomag from Pete&#8217;s Bike Shop in Flemington, NJ. The shot is from what was then a vacant lot down the street from my home in Middlesex. They were building a house there and finishing up the cul de sac, so there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,54],"tags":[71,120,72,78,25,86,68,70,80,77],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-britty-blog","category-the-average-bmxer","tag-3d-art","tag-brett-middaugh","tag-cgpinups","tag-chateau-woo-woo","tag-graphics","tag-little-britty","tag-middaugh-org","tag-photography","tag-the-average-bmxer-2","tag-voice-of-generation-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"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=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}