{"id":23264,"date":"2009-11-14T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23264"},"modified":"2009-11-15T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T20:28:25","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-hight-wraps-up-first-funny-car-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=23264","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Hight wraps up first Funny Car title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Robert Hight wrapped up his first Funny Car championship Saturday, qualifying third in the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals to take an insurmountable 106-point lead over teammate Ashley Force Hood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is unbelievable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hight, the son-in-law of 14-time champ John Force. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When they started telling me that I clinched it, and even though I had some time to think about it when we had the big lead leaving Las Vegas, I never really got emotional. Tonight, I was\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=txnhra&amp;prov=st&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hight wrapped up his first Funny Car championship Saturday, qualifying third in the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals to take an insurmountable 106-point lead over teammate Ashley Force Hood. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is unbelievable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hight, the son-in-law of 14-time champ John Force. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When they started telling me that I clinched it, and even though I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23264","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=23264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23273,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23264\/revisions\/23273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}