{"id":27206,"date":"2010-01-29T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=27206"},"modified":"2010-01-29T07:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:38:34","slug":"drag-racing-economic-woes-prompt-john-force-to-cut-back-nhra-funny-car-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=27206","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing &#8211; Economic woes prompt John Force to cut back NHRA funny-car team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Citing the weak economy and lack of sponsorship, drag-racing legend John Force said today he is reducing his team of NHRA funny-car dragsters to three cars from four.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Ford Mustangs driven by Force, his daughter Ashley Force Hood and son-in-law Robert Hight &#8212; the reigning funny car champion in the National Hot Rod Assn.&#8217;s Full Throttle Series &#8212; will continue to compete, but the fourth car, driven by Mike Neff, will\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2010\/01\/nhra-john-force-drag-racing-winternationals-ashley-force-hood.html\" 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>Citing the weak economy and lack of sponsorship, drag-racing legend John Force said today he is reducing his team of NHRA funny-car dragsters to three cars from four. The Ford Mustangs driven by Force, his daughter Ashley Force Hood and son-in-law Robert Hight &#8212; the reigning funny car champion in the National Hot Rod Assn.&#8217;s [&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-27206","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\/27206","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=27206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27224,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions\/27224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}