{"id":36425,"date":"2010-09-02T05:46:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36425"},"modified":"2010-09-02T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:46:06","slug":"the-stigs-id-is-top-gear-secret-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36425","title":{"rendered":"The Stig&#8217;s ID is &#8216;Top Gear&#8217; secret no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LONDON \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The opaque visor of one of Britain&#8217;s most famous helmets has been lifted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The identity of The Stig, the always-anonymous test driver on the popular television show &#8220;Top Gear,&#8221; has long been a closely guarded secret. On Wednesday, lawyers said the BBC had been refused an injunction blocking publication of a book revealing the identity of the character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shortly after, publishers HarperCollins said in a statement that a 33-year-old racing driver named\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100901\/ap_on_en_tv\/eu_britain_top_gear\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The opaque visor of one of Britain&#8217;s most famous helmets has been lifted. The identity of The Stig, the always-anonymous test driver on the popular television show &#8220;Top Gear,&#8221; has long been a closely guarded secret. On Wednesday, lawyers said the BBC had been refused an injunction blocking publication of a book revealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-misc","category-new-automobile-products-tests","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36425","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=36425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36427,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36425\/revisions\/36427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}