{"id":128679,"date":"2017-02-22T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=128679"},"modified":"2017-02-22T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T04:33:14","slug":"steve-mcqueen-vs-paul-newman-who-was-the-better-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=128679","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen vs Paul Newman: who was the better racer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at the original poster for <em>The Towering \u00adInferno<\/em> you will see Paul Newman\u2019s name above that of Steve McQueen, but McQueen\u2019s image to the left of Newman\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>This did not happen by chance: in the sole major film the two biggest stars of the Seventies appeared in together, it was the only way that equal billing could be assured. But they have something other than a big-budget disaster movie in common: both loved to race cars\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/cars\/features\/steve-mcqueen-vs-paul-newman-better-racer\/\" 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>If you look at the original poster for The Towering \u00adInferno you will see Paul Newman\u2019s name above that of Steve McQueen, but McQueen\u2019s image to the left of Newman\u2019s. This did not happen by chance: in the sole major film the two biggest stars of the Seventies appeared in together, it was the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-misc","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128679","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=128679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128680,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128679\/revisions\/128680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}