{"id":149771,"date":"2019-03-27T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=149771"},"modified":"2019-03-27T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:24:15","slug":"how-i-ended-up-driving-in-and-winning-a-modern-day-cannonball-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=149771","title":{"rendered":"How I ended up driving in\u2014and winning\u2014a modern-day Cannonball Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The legacy and reality of driving from New York to California in less than two days<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The warmth of Nebraska\u2019s afternoon air and the steady drone of the car\u2019s powerful V8 engine had lulled my exhausted body into a deep, although unsettled, sleep. Jolted awake by a sudden lurch to the left, I inhaled sharply, feeling out of place in the right-hand seat of my own car. My armpits were damp and a sheen of sweat glistened on my forehead.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d had a disturbing dream about something having gone wrong with the car. Back in the conscious world, the machine was still hurtling westward on I-80\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/roadtrippers.com\/magazine\/modern-day-cannonball-run\/?utm_content=Content_editorial&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly%20Email%203_26_19%20send%202&amp;utm_term=Roadtrippers%20Americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy and reality of driving from New York to California in less than two days The warmth of Nebraska\u2019s afternoon air and the steady drone of the car\u2019s powerful V8 engine had lulled my exhausted body into a deep, although unsettled, sleep. Jolted awake by a sudden lurch to the left, I inhaled sharply, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149771","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=149771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149772,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149771\/revisions\/149772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}