{"id":42477,"date":"2011-01-04T22:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42477"},"modified":"2011-01-04T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:46:48","slug":"lsr-british-supercar-thats-known-as-the-fastest-kettle-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42477","title":{"rendered":"LSR &#8211; British supercar that&#8217;s known as the fastest kettle in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you believed the golden age of steam was in the dim and distant past, think again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This streamlined British supercar that went on a test run at a military airstrip near Chichester last week is about to attempt to smash one of the world&#8217;s most enduring records, the highest speed for a steam-driven car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Known as the &#8216;World&#8217;s Fastest Kettle&#8217;, the car is being shipped to America where driver Charles Burnett III will make the record attempt across a dried-up lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Southern California in early June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The steam-car record of 127.659mph was set by American Fred Marriott in 1906 in a machine called the Stanley Steamer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He tried to break his record a year later but the car\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1167542\/The-British-supercar-thats-known-fastest-kettle-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believed the golden age of steam was in the dim and distant past, think again. This streamlined British supercar that went on a test run at a military airstrip near Chichester last week is about to attempt to smash one of the world&#8217;s most enduring records, the highest speed for a steam-driven car. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42477","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=42477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42478,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42477\/revisions\/42478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}