{"id":35517,"date":"2010-08-14T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35517"},"modified":"2010-08-14T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T17:54:34","slug":"powerboat-video-fast-times-at-lake-of-the-ozarks-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35517","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat Video &#8211; Fast Times at Lake of the Ozarks Shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the best high-performance boat event of the year, look no further than central Missouri.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong, I flat out love covering the annual Super Boat International Offshore World Championships. I mean, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to love about a week in Key West, Fla., in mid-November? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually when the weather gets dicey in the San Francisco Bay area\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhere I live\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso covering the Key West Worlds presents a nice getaway, even if it is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But for me the Key West Worlds are more about reconnecting with the people I know in the offshore powerboat racing community than watching the races. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because since the 1999 and 2000 seasons, the event has been in a steady decline\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor a number of reasons\u00e2\u20ac\u201dso much so that last year pleasure boats from the Florida Powerboat Club outnumbered race boats by at least three to one\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/features.boats.com\/boat-content\/2010\/08\/fast-times-at-lake-of-the-ozarks-shootout\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dave Scott wins 2009 Captain Ron&#8217;s Shootout in Lake of the Ozarks. Winning speed 196 MPH<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2xHxSJzVshk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2xHxSJzVshk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><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 the best high-performance boat event of the year, look no further than central Missouri. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong, I flat out love covering the annual Super Boat International Offshore World Championships. I mean, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to love about a week in Key West, Fla., in mid-November? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually when the weather gets dicey in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35517","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=35517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35519,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35517\/revisions\/35519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}