{"id":484,"date":"2009-02-05T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T04:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2009-02-24T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T05:02:10","slug":"foothills-teen-kart-racer-eyes-nascar-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Foothills teen kart racer eyes NASCAR career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-485\" title=\"nascar-kart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/nascar-kart-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"nascar-kart\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Hathcox has a need for speed.<\/p>\n<p>And this Sunday, the Ahwatukee Foothills teen will mash the pedal to the metal while racing through 12 turns at the Phoenix Kart Racing Association track &#8211; the third of 17 races he&#8217;ll tackle in Arizona and Southern California through August in his fifth racing season.<\/p>\n<p>What drives the 16-year-old kart racer &#8211; who turns 17 Monday &#8211; is the dream of becoming a NASCAR driver, a goal he set early in his life and has been racing towards ever since. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/community\/ahwatukee\/articles\/2009\/02\/05\/20090205ar-racer0207.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Hathcox has a need for speed. And this Sunday, the Ahwatukee Foothills teen will mash the pedal to the metal while racing through 12 turns at the Phoenix Kart Racing Association track &#8211; the third of 17 races he&#8217;ll tackle in Arizona and Southern California through August in his fifth racing season. What drives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,61,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-karts","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}