{"id":10438,"date":"2009-04-25T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T03:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10438"},"modified":"2009-04-25T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T05:01:39","slug":"automobile-sports-car-speeding-cars-get-green-light-on-texas-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10438","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Speeding cars get green light on Texas highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once a year, to the delight of speed demons from around the country, a stretch of normally deserted highway becomes a Texas version of the autobahn\u00e2\u20ac\u201da road with no speed limit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And better yet, the traffic cops allow it. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been known to encourage the speeders who sometimes top 160 mph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like grown-up summer camp,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lester Pittenger, a 55-year-old retired social worker from Somerville, N.J.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pittenger drove his white 2001 Corvette 1,965 miles to West Texas to take part in this weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Big Bend Open Road Race, one of only a handful of opportunities for people with fast cars to go real fast\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlegally\u00e2\u20ac\u201don a regular highway&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-openroad&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a year, to the delight of speed demons from around the country, a stretch of normally deserted highway becomes a Texas version of the autobahn\u00e2\u20ac\u201da road with no speed limit. And better yet, the traffic cops allow it. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been known to encourage the speeders who sometimes top 160 mph. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like grown-up summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438","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=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10440,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions\/10440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}