{"id":4867,"date":"2009-03-18T09:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2009-03-18T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:09:56","slug":"powerboat-fulfilling-the-need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat &#8211; Fulfilling the need for speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4868\" title=\"u17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/u17.jpg\" alt=\"u17\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/u17.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/u17-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Issaquah native is 2008 \u00c2\u00a0hydro racer Rookie of the Year<\/p>\n<p>When he hits a straightaway at 180 miles per hour at the Sea Fair Chevrolet Cup on Lake Washington, unlimited hydroplane racer Kip Brown describes his boat as a nimble machine.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the chaos of cutting through three- to four-foot-high waves behind the outwash of competitors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rooster tails and with buoys racing by, he said he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t experience the true power and agility of his 30-foot, 3,000 horsepower behemoth until he actually has to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issaquahpress.com\/2009\/03\/16\/fulfilling-the-need-for-speed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issaquah native is 2008 \u00c2\u00a0hydro racer Rookie of the Year When he hits a straightaway at 180 miles per hour at the Sea Fair Chevrolet Cup on Lake Washington, unlimited hydroplane racer Kip Brown describes his boat as a nimble machine. Amid the chaos of cutting through three- to four-foot-high waves behind the outwash of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}