{"id":39017,"date":"2013-05-25T05:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T10:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=39017"},"modified":"2013-05-25T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T10:38:08","slug":"rife-to-make-jump-today-at-kinstles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/05\/25\/rife-to-make-jump-today-at-kinstles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rife to make jump today at Kinstle&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39018\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Henry-Rife-file-photo-from-2010.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39018   \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Henry-Rife-file-photo-from-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Henry-Rife-file-photo-from-2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Henry-Rife-file-photo-from-2010-386x600.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Van Wert independent file photo of Henry &quot;The Pitbull&quot; Rife is from the 2010 Peony Festival Grand Parade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daredevil jumper Henry &#8220;The Pitbull&#8221; Rife is making a special appearance today at Lee Kinstle&#8217;s Sales and Service, 650 W. Ervin Road in Van Wert. There will be refreshments and fun for the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Rife will jump at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Rife, born in 1968, used to jump motorcycles, but prefers quads. His machine of choice is a Honda TRX-250R Fourtrax. His biggest jump was 132 feet from ramp to ground, and took place at Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>His worst crash was when he failed to jump a house trailer. He broke both legs, his collarbone, and was unconscious for 45 minutes. He also suffered a concussion and had temporary memory loss. But, like Evel Knevel, he got up and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Rife has appeared on the \u201cLate Show with David Letterman\u201d, where he performed a live jump on national television.<\/p>\n<p>To visit Rife&#8217;s Facebook page, type in \u201cHenry The Pitbull Rife\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information submitted Daredevil jumper Henry &#8220;The Pitbull&#8221; Rife is making a special appearance today at Lee Kinstle&#8217;s Sales and Service, 650 W. Ervin Road in Van Wert. There will be refreshments and fun for the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Rife will jump at noon. Rife, born in 1968, used to jump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 22:30:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}