{"id":3572,"date":"2009-03-13T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:37:28","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-nascar-nascar-could-learn-something-from-nhra-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing NASCAR &#8211; NASCAR could learn something from NHRA diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A<\/em> beat-up old khaki Hummer with no top stopped at a light in downtown Orlando and Tom Hammonds pointed at it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d race that if I could,&#8221; Hammonds said, laughing, as we sat having lunch and chatting about his roots in drag racing.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with the most dangerous kind. Street racing in his hometown of Crestview. He even raced in his mother&#8217;s station wagon&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/motorracing\/orl-sportsganguli13031309a,0,5009735.column\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beat-up old khaki Hummer with no top stopped at a light in downtown Orlando and Tom Hammonds pointed at it. &#8220;I&#8217;d race that if I could,&#8221; Hammonds said, laughing, as we sat having lunch and chatting about his roots in drag racing. It all started with the most dangerous kind. Street racing in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}