{"id":2824,"date":"2009-03-07T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:49:30","slug":"automobile-march-meet-historic-bakersfield-drag-race-returns-for-51st-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; March Meet, historic Bakersfield drag race, returns for 51st year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Grand Prix isn&#8217;t until next month, but until then, you can get your motor humming out in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend marks the annual March Meet, a historic drag race, often referred to as &#8220;the Woodstock of drag racing,&#8221; held at the quarter-mile Famoso Raceway since 1959.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re feeling the need for speed, head to Famoso to witness 500 cars compete over the three-day weekend. Drag racers from around the world congregate for the &#8220;jewel of nostalgia racing,&#8221; which also includes a swap meet and vendors&#8217; midway&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-1849-Southern-California-Travel-Examiner~y2009m3d7-March-Meet-historic-Bakersfield-drag-race-returns-for-51st-year\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach Grand Prix isn&#8217;t until next month, but until then, you can get your motor humming out in Bakersfield. This weekend marks the annual March Meet, a historic drag race, often referred to as &#8220;the Woodstock of drag racing,&#8221; held at the quarter-mile Famoso Raceway since 1959. If you&#8217;re feeling the need for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","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=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}