{"id":123446,"date":"2016-10-08T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=123446"},"modified":"2016-10-08T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T03:55:41","slug":"brock-yates-automotive-writer-driver-who-created-cannonball-run-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=123446","title":{"rendered":"Brock Yates, automotive writer, driver who created Cannonball Run, dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Yates, a maverick automotive writer, commentator and magazine editor who was best known for creating \u2014 and winning \u2014 the madcap Cannonball Run coast-to-coast race, and who later wrote screenplays for two popular \u201cCannonball Run\u201d movies, died Oct.\u00a05 in Batavia, N.Y. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>The death was announced by a son, Brock Yates Jr. The cause was complications from Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>At various times, Mr. Yates was\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/brock-yates-automotive-writer-driver-who-created-cannonball-run-dies-at-82\/2016\/10\/08\/22f5a312-8d71-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html\" 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>Brock Yates, a maverick automotive writer, commentator and magazine editor who was best known for creating \u2014 and winning \u2014 the madcap Cannonball Run coast-to-coast race, and who later wrote screenplays for two popular \u201cCannonball Run\u201d movies, died Oct.\u00a05 in Batavia, N.Y. He was 82. The death was announced by a son, Brock Yates Jr. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123446","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=123446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123449,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123446\/revisions\/123449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}