{"id":424,"date":"2009-02-05T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:27:47","slug":"johnson-sheik-to-test-drag-strips-royal-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Johnson, sheik to test drag strip&#8217;s royal house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-426\" title=\"top-fuel-car1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/top-fuel-car1.bmp\" alt=\"top-fuel-car1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inside-copy\">For Alan Johnson, leaving Don Schumacher Racing to return to ownership with a start-up team was simply a matter of moving from one form of royalty to another \u00e2\u20ac\u201d literally.<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">After winning the last five Top Fuel championships as Tony Schumacher&#8217;s crew chief, Johnson announced last summer that he was leaving the powerhouse outfit to return to ownership with a two-car operation. One twist: He now has a partnership with Sheik Khalid Bin Hamad Al-Thani of Qatar to form&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2009-02-04-johnson-al-anabi_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Alan Johnson, leaving Don Schumacher Racing to return to ownership with a start-up team was simply a matter of moving from one form of royalty to another \u00e2\u20ac\u201d literally. After winning the last five Top Fuel championships as Tony Schumacher&#8217;s crew chief, Johnson announced last summer that he was leaving the powerhouse outfit to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}