{"id":1264,"date":"2009-02-11T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T05:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:47:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:47:43","slug":"world-motor-racing-2009-the-economic-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; World motor racing 2009; the economic toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all could use a break right about now, so let&#8217;s go to the races. But you might not recognize racing in its 2009 version.<\/p>\n<p>Motor racing of all types became a huge draw during the First Great Depression, from 1929 until the start of WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, in this Second Great Depression, motor racing is being hit hard, not just in the US, but worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Every major racing series, from the quintessentially American series like NHRA drag racing, IndyCar and NASCAR to world events like Formula 1, the exciting and interesting new A1 Grand Prix series to World Rally, European Touring Cars and all the motorcycle sports, too, are trying&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-parker\/world-motor-racing-2009-t_b_166178.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all could use a break right about now, so let&#8217;s go to the races. But you might not recognize racing in its 2009 version. Motor racing of all types became a huge draw during the First Great Depression, from 1929 until the start of WWII. Today, though, in this Second Great Depression, motor racing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,20,21,61,22,60,24,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-drifting","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-karts","category-nascar","category-off-road-auto","category-rally-car","category-sports-car","category-sprints-midgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4661,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/4661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}