{"id":50462,"date":"2011-06-11T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50462"},"modified":"2011-06-11T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:15:12","slug":"drag-racing-qa-with-don-garlits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50462","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing &#8211; Q&#038;A with Don Garlits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drag racing legend Don Garlits is in town for this weekend&#8217;s NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series at Tulsa Raceway Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Garlits, 79, is known as the father of drag racing and in 2001 was voted the top driver for the sport&#8217;s first 50 years. During his career, he won 17 world championships and eight NHRA US Nationals titles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How did you get the nickname &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/sportsextra\/article.aspx?subjectid=20&amp;articleid=20110610_20_B8_CUTLIN282671\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drag racing legend Don Garlits is in town for this weekend&#8217;s NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series at Tulsa Raceway Park. Garlits, 79, is known as the father of drag racing and in 2001 was voted the top driver for the sport&#8217;s first 50 years. During his career, he won 17 world championships and eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462","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=50462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50463,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462\/revisions\/50463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}