{"id":157659,"date":"2020-05-24T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157659"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:51:34","slug":"cannonball-run-record-has-been-beaten-7-times-in-5-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157659","title":{"rendered":"Cannonball Run record has been beaten 7 times in 5 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the pearl-clutching about the morality of performing a Cannonball Run during a global pandemic seems to have been for nothing, with Ed Bolian reporting America\u2019s most illegal record has been beaten seven times in the span of just five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bolian, who has been in contact with the new record holders, the time to beat is now less than 26 hours. A sub 28-hour Cannonball Run was once unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>While he has not disclosed\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whichcar.com.au\/news\/the-cannonball-run-record-has-been-obliterated?utm_source=wnd&amp;utm_medium=wnd&amp;utm_campaign=syndicated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-bhmioV5NQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".cv3gphx2io.5.$=10.0.0.1.1\"><strong>These are the extreme lengths people will go to break the Cannonball Run record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".cv3gphx2io.5.$=10.0.0.1.1\">&#8230;\u00a0Meet Ed. He\u2019s a tall, slow-speaking 27-year-old from Atlanta who used to breed albino lizards, teaches Sunday School with his wife and makes a living selling Lamborghinis.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Ed Bolian is also the quickest man in America.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, this gangly, goofy-looking used-car salesman is the fastest man on four wheels across the States, a title he earned after driving the breadth of the country \u2013 some 4527km \u2013 in a record-shattering, eyeball-searing, police-dodging 28 hours and 50 minutes\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whichcar.com.au\/features\/how-to-break-the-cannonball-run-record\" 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>All the pearl-clutching about the morality of performing a Cannonball Run during a global pandemic seems to have been for nothing, with Ed Bolian reporting America\u2019s most illegal record has been beaten seven times in the span of just five weeks. According to Bolian, who has been in contact with the new record holders, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,11,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-misc","category-sports-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157659","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=157659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157660,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157659\/revisions\/157660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}