{"id":3450,"date":"2013-12-16T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2016-08-16T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:43:44","slug":"2013-scholarship-winner-joey-bickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"2013 Scholarship Winner \u2013 Joey Bickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?attachment_id=3451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3451\" title=\"Joey_Bickers\" src=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joey_Bickers1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joey_Bickers1-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joey_Bickers1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>Born: June 26, 1992; lives Moorpark, Calif. After competing in motocross events from age 12, Bickers discovered a new passion after obtaining his driver\u2019s permit in 2010 and began building his own off-road truck to drive near his home in Southern California. He attended the Jim Hall Karting Racing School in Oxnard, Calif., in late 2011 and began racing in the Los Angeles Karting Championship in 2012. After claiming Rookie of the Year honors, Bickers graduated to cars in the 2013 Pacific F1600 Series with PR1 Motorsports and was immediately a front-runner. He also won the Teen Mazda Challenge West driving an SCCA Spec Miata, and went on to claim a\u00a0<em>MAZDASPEED<\/em>\u00a0Scholarship to contest the 2014 SCCA MX-5 Cup series with CJ Wilson Racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: June 26, 1992; lives Moorpark, Calif. After competing in motocross events from age 12, Bickers discovered a new passion after obtaining his driver\u2019s permit in 2010 and began building his own off-road truck to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}