{"id":19902,"date":"2009-09-01T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19902"},"modified":"2009-09-01T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:01:31","slug":"motorcycle-dirt-track-racing-2009-lucas-oil-indy-mile-with-the-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19902","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Dirt Track Racing &#8211; 2009 Lucas Oil Indy Mile with the Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"vsCaption\">MotoGP weekend in Indianapolis means a number of things \u00e2\u20ac\u201c lots of bikes on the streets, people camping in weird places, an inordinate number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pedrosa Sucks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d T-shirts, and the AMA Lucas Oil Indy Mile Grand National race. On an eerily cool clear night, MotoGP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s distant relations arrived at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in their RV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to watch their sons, brothers and dads slide around in the dirt, trying to win enough money to pay for the gas it took to get here. And after almost a dozen hard-fought heats and preliminaries, Kenny Coolbeth, Jr. left the field in his dust to take the lead in the 2009 AMA Flat Track championship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In yet another blatant display of bad judgment, I invited my wife Nancy to accompany me tonight, starting with a reception hosted by &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/events\/2009-lucas-oil-indy-mile-88692.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MotoGP weekend in Indianapolis means a number of things \u00e2\u20ac\u201c lots of bikes on the streets, people camping in weird places, an inordinate number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pedrosa Sucks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d T-shirts, and the AMA Lucas Oil Indy Mile Grand National race. On an eerily cool clear night, MotoGP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s distant relations arrived at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902","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=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19904,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions\/19904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}