{"id":20600,"date":"2009-09-20T19:46:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T02:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20600"},"modified":"2009-09-20T19:46:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T02:46:33","slug":"automobile-autocross-behind-the-scenes-of-the-jay-leno-shows-green-car-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20600","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Autocross &#8211; Behind the Scenes of the &#8220;Jay Leno Show&#8217;s&#8221; Green Car Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You did not dream it. There on NBC on Friday night was Drew Barrymore steering an electric Ford Focus between plastic palm trees and wobbly Al Gore dummies on a track painted like something out of the Big Top&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Barrymore is the first celebrity to compete in the Green Car Challenge on the new &#8220;Jay Leno Show&#8221;, which debuted this week on NBC.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sight of A-list stars having fun in a C02-free car on national TV a couple of times a week has the potential to convert both the actors and the audience to the new generation of zero emission cars like, say, Ford&#8217;s coming all-electric Focus, which\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/features\/consumer\/112_0909_jay_leno_show_green_car_challenge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You did not dream it. There on NBC on Friday night was Drew Barrymore steering an electric Ford Focus between plastic palm trees and wobbly Al Gore dummies on a track painted like something out of the Big Top&#8230; Barrymore is the first celebrity to compete in the Green Car Challenge on the new &#8220;Jay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600","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=20600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20601,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions\/20601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}