{"id":13652,"date":"2009-06-02T22:01:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13652"},"modified":"2009-06-02T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T05:09:00","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-courtney-force-racing-through-summer-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13652","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Courtney Force racing through summer, a quarter-mile at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NHRA driver Courtney Force will document her summer on the drag-racing circuit in an online column for USA TODAY. This is her first entry:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am excited to be contributing to USATODAY.com this summer. Many of you may not know me as well as you may know my dad, 14-time Funny Car champion John Force, or maybe my older sister, professional Funny Car driver Ashley Force Hood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have been racing in the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series the past four years. I started my racing career just like Ashley in a Super Comp dragster. Last season I stepped up to the Top Alcohol Dragster class. This is the fastest class without racing professionally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I promised my parents I would finish college before I started &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2009-06-02-courtney-force-diary_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHRA driver Courtney Force will document her summer on the drag-racing circuit in an online column for USA TODAY. This is her first entry: I am excited to be contributing to USATODAY.com this summer. Many of you may not know me as well as you may know my dad, 14-time Funny Car champion John Force, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652","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=13652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}