{"id":45516,"date":"2011-03-05T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45516"},"modified":"2011-03-05T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T17:57:57","slug":"carmichael-pastrana-among-action-sports-stars-trying-out-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45516","title":{"rendered":"Carmichael, Pastrana among action sports stars trying out NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;\">\n<p>Ken Block was lounging on the balcony of a pleasantly elegant hotel in northern France, enjoying a view of rolling hills and vineyards while resisting the urge to theorize how fast he could rip through them in a rally car. In a day he and Ford would unveil his entry for the World Rally Championship, officially making him the first American to compete full-time in at the highest level of the ultra-popular, ultra-difficult off-road racing circuit.<\/p>\n<p>It was a decidedly long way from Long Beach, Calif., and his formative days as a skateboarder, snowboarder, motocross rider, and an unwitting pioneer in what would\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/brant_james\/03\/03\/Ken.Block\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Block was lounging on the balcony of a pleasantly elegant hotel in northern France, enjoying a view of rolling hills and vineyards while resisting the urge to theorize how fast he could rip through them in a rally car. In a day he and Ford would unveil his entry for the World Rally Championship, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42,43,8,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-fmx","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-nascar","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45516","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=45516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45517,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45516\/revisions\/45517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}