{"id":781,"date":"2014-07-28T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=781"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T08:44:46","slug":"uk-cycling-phenomenon-recognised-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"UK cycling phenomenon recognised in play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_782\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/017800587_30300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-782\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/017800587_30300-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Beat the men: Burton beat men and women with her Yorkshire grit and determination\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/017800587_30300-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/017800587_30300.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grit: Burton beat men and women with her Yorkshire grit and determination<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the Tour de France ended in Paris last weekend, Yorkshire in the north of England was still reeling from the excitement of hosting the Grand Depart of the famous race in early July. But this male-only race has finally brought a measure of recognition to one of Britain\u2019s finest ever athletes &#8211; a Yorkshire housewife who even beat her male colleagues in her heyday in the 1960s. Listen to my report for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/theater-play-brings-recognition-to-unsung-british-cycling-champ\/a-17800626\">Deutsche Welle Radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2361231-top-uk-athlete-celebrated-in-play\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAAGOw2FOPByQA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:349px; max-width:700px;\" style=\"background-color:transparent;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2361231-top-uk-athlete-celebrated-in-play\">listen to &#x2018;Top UK athlete celebrated in play&#x2019; on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Tour de France ended in Paris last weekend, Yorkshire in the north of England was still reeling from the excitement of hosting the Grand Depart of the famous race in early July. But this male-only race has finally brought a measure of recognition to one of Britain\u2019s finest ever athletes &#8211; a Yorkshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}