{"id":14275,"date":"2009-06-10T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2009-06-10T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:44:58","slug":"automobile-drifting-police-sponsors-drifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14275","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drifting &#8211; Police sponsors drifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THEY are charged with maintaining law and order on Singapore&#8217;s roads. So it will come as a surprise to many that the Traffic Police are the main sponsors for next month&#8217;s pro-am drift contest &#8211; an activity many associate with young daredevils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drifting is not all bad, says Deputy Superintendent of Police Soh Wan Khuan, referring to a sport in which the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction through turns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;If done in a controlled environment where the drivers are fully aware of the rules and regulations governing their safety, drifting can be a safe but exciting sport,&#8217; he said&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Singapore\/Story\/STIStory_388286.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEY are charged with maintaining law and order on Singapore&#8217;s roads. So it will come as a surprise to many that the Traffic Police are the main sponsors for next month&#8217;s pro-am drift contest &#8211; an activity many associate with young daredevils. Drifting is not all bad, says Deputy Superintendent of Police Soh Wan Khuan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275","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=14275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14276,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions\/14276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}