{"id":111763,"date":"2015-10-30T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=111763"},"modified":"2015-10-30T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:51:50","slug":"the-story-behind-grave-digger-the-monster-truck-everybodys-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=111763","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Grave Digger, The Monster Truck Everybody&#8217;s Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monster truck \u201cracing\u201d technically includes a contest of who can get to the finish line first. but really this sport is about showmanship. And when Grave Digger\u2019s signature red headlights come on. you know you\u2019re about to see something amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Creator Dennis Anderson told <em>Monster Jam <\/em>he made the first \u201cpiece of junk\u201d that went by Grave Digger in 1979. A shaggy-haired gearhead starting out of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, his eventual rise to fame is\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/truckyeah.jalopnik.com\/why-grave-digger-is-the-only-monster-truck-everybodys-h-1739230851\" 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>Monster truck \u201cracing\u201d technically includes a contest of who can get to the finish line first. but really this sport is about showmanship. And when Grave Digger\u2019s signature red headlights come on. you know you\u2019re about to see something amazing. Creator Dennis Anderson told Monster Jam he made the first \u201cpiece of junk\u201d that went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,60,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto","category-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763","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=111763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111764,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111763\/revisions\/111764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}