{"id":101138,"date":"2014-12-07T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101138"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:00:55","slug":"drag-racing-innovator-and-crew-chief-dale-armstrong-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101138","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing Innovator and Crew Chief Dale Armstrong Dead At 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-gifted Dale Armstrong died Friday after complications from sarcoidosis. He was 73. In the annals of drag racing few compared to Armstrong. \u201cDouble A Dale\u201d was best known as the crew chief for Kenny Bernstein during his rout of Funny Car championships, but inside drag racing he was mostly known as an innovator and for his ability to think way ahead of existing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Moving from his ancestral Canada to California in 1965, he started his drag racing career running a topless\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotrod.com\/news\/drag-racing-innovator-and-crew-chief-dale-armstrong-dead-at-73\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-gifted Dale Armstrong died Friday after complications from sarcoidosis. He was 73. In the annals of drag racing few compared to Armstrong. \u201cDouble A Dale\u201d was best known as the crew chief for Kenny Bernstein during his rout of Funny Car championships, but inside drag racing he was mostly known as an innovator and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101139,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101138\/revisions\/101139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}