{"id":14139,"date":"2009-06-09T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14139"},"modified":"2009-06-09T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T18:35:21","slug":"automobile-sand-drag-racing-where-the-sand-is-hot-and-the-rubber-is-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14139","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sand Drag Racing &#8211; Where the Sand Is Hot, and the Rubber Is Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14141\" title=\"sand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/sand.bmp\" alt=\"sand\" \/>When drag racing in sand, to wait for the green light is to lose.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A light fixture separates two lanes of sand, each 100 yards long, clumped and stained with rubber and exhaust. A row of yellow bulbs shines, then another: On your marks. Less than a second passes, the exact duration unpredictable. Then an orange light flashes: Get set. This is the crucial moment of acceleration. In another four-hundredths of a second the green light will signal go, the front end of the dragster in the next lane will rise up like a taunted beast and an awful lot of dirty sand will color the sky&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/09\/sports\/autoracing\/09drag.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When drag racing in sand, to wait for the green light is to lose.\u00c2\u00a0 A light fixture separates two lanes of sand, each 100 yards long, clumped and stained with rubber and exhaust. A row of yellow bulbs shines, then another: On your marks. Less than a second passes, the exact duration unpredictable. Then an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-off-road-auto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139","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=14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14143,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}