{"id":4904,"date":"2009-03-18T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2009-03-20T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T02:12:43","slug":"powerboat-drag-boat-races-speeding-into-lake-elsinore-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat &#8211; Drag boat races speeding into Lake Elsinore this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It may be the closest thing to NASCAR that Lake Elsinore has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This area is a hotbed of motorsport activities,&#8221; said Mike Finnegan, a member of the National Jet Boat Racing Club&#8217;s board. &#8220;These boats are &#8230; the closest thing to muscle cars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It will be the second time the Club, a nonprofit organization, holds one of its annual races at Lake Elsinore, he said. The drag boat races will be held Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although their events are typically held in Bakersfield, this year someone on the board recalled how successful the 1998 Lake Elsinore event was, Finnegan said&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/inland\/stories\/PE_News_Local_S_sboat18.44a9d5b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be the closest thing to NASCAR that Lake Elsinore has ever seen. &#8220;This area is a hotbed of motorsport activities,&#8221; said Mike Finnegan, a member of the National Jet Boat Racing Club&#8217;s board. &#8220;These boats are &#8230; the closest thing to muscle cars.&#8221; It will be the second time the Club, a nonprofit [&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-4904","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\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}