{"id":29231,"date":"2010-03-21T08:48:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29231"},"modified":"2010-03-21T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T16:14:24","slug":"in-morocco-an-off-road-rally-for-women-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=29231","title":{"rendered":"In Morocco, an Off-Road Rally for Women Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For 20 years, the Moroccan desert has drawn teams of hardy souls for a peculiar nine-day adventure, the Rallye A\u00c3\u00afcha des Gazelles. This environmentally conscious off-road event is reminiscent of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Amazing Race,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with some major differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is for women only, speed is not the point and no prizes are awarded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The competitors aim to reach the five to seven daily checkpoints, marked by red flags in the sandy landscape, while covering the shortest distance. The teams of two \u00e2\u20ac\u201d traveling in four-wheel-drive vehicles and trucks\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/21\/sports\/autoracing\/21rally.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 20 years, the Moroccan desert has drawn teams of hardy souls for a peculiar nine-day adventure, the Rallye A\u00c3\u00afcha des Gazelles. This environmentally conscious off-road event is reminiscent of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Amazing Race,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with some major differences. It is for women only, speed is not the point and no prizes are awarded. The competitors aim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29231","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=29231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29252,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29231\/revisions\/29252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}