{"id":7579,"date":"2019-02-04T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:36:08","slug":"the-six-day-race-the-story-of-major-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-six-day-race-the-story-of-major-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Six Day Race: The Story of Major Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7580\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MajorTaylor-1024x600.png\" alt=\"Team Major Taylor in a pack\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MajorTaylor-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MajorTaylor-400x234.png 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MajorTaylor-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MajorTaylor-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MajorTaylor.png 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1899, Major Taylor, the first African-American sports star, was the sprint champion of the world. That&#8217;s only 36 short years after the Emancipation Proclamation, which makes what he did all the more remarkable. Luckily, through a series of books and videos, more riders are aware of the contribution Taylor made to our sport than only a few years back, when his story had drifted into the mists of time.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to share this short video with you, to highlight some of the inspiring riders keeping Taylor&#8217;s story alive and pushing it forward with their own contributions to cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1899, Major Taylor, the first African-American sports star, was the sprint champion of the world. That&#8217;s only 36 short years after the Emancipation Proclamation, which makes what he did all the more remarkable. Luckily, through a series of books and videos, more riders are aware of the contribution Taylor made to our sport than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/the-six-day-race-the-story-of-major-taylor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Six Day Race: The Story of Major Taylor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[977,799,6],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-major-taylor","tag-road-bikes","tag-seven-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}