{"id":2369,"date":"2012-01-04T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irishdh.com\/index.php\/news-mainmenu-2\/28-rider-interviews\/383-ben-kennedy-weapon-one"},"modified":"2012-01-05T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:07:09","slug":"ben-kennedy-weapon-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/04\/ben-kennedy-weapon-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Kennedy &#8211; Weapon One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<input alt=\"alt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irishdh.com\/files\/Back_in_the_day.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left; width: 100px; height: 75px; \" type=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n\tSo I myself am good mates with Ben Kennedy, I remember one day being out on a local trail and this little 12 year old came absolutely flying by on a Kona Stinky. I stopped and said F*u*k! I knew I would see more of this guy and I was right. 2010 Irish National Championship and BDS Overall Winner in 2011. People dont realise but Ben is the first Irish Rider since Jamie Popham to win the BDS Overall &#8211; pretty big deal!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\tAnyway I asked Ben a few questions and heres what he had to say for himself: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>\tSo I myself am good mates with Ben Kennedy, I remember one day being out on a local trail and this little 12 year old came absolutely flying by on a Kona Stinky. I stopped and said F*u*k! I knew I would see more of this guy and I was right. 2010 I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}