{"id":4910,"date":"2016-09-29T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:19:39","slug":"death-of-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/29\/death-of-a-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just learned that the legend of Irish off-road cycling, Richie Byrne, has passed away. \u00a0Richie had been battling cancer and had brought us on a journey with him through the struggles he had as he was brave enough to share those experiences on Facebook. \u00a0He has left behind a huge legacy going back to the very earliest days of the sport in Ireland. \u00a0His Epic Blast will long live in the memory. \u00a0From pushing on top athletes to taking out beginners for their first mountain bike spin, from competing locally and internationally, he had done it all. \u00a0We all wanted to get to know him, but that also meant he then knew who you were so there was no hiding from the banter he dished out on the microphone when commenting at races. \u00a0The &#8220;Godfather&#8221;. \u00a0RIP Richie. \u00a0Deepest condolences to his family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichieByrne.jpg\" alt=\"RichieByrne\" width=\"960\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichieByrne.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichieByrne-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichieByrne-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichieByrne-900x643.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photograph above provided with permission from Adrian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just learned that the legend of Irish off-road cycling, Richie Byrne, has passed away. \u00a0Richie had been battling cancer and had brought us on a journey with him through the struggles he&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}