{"id":50768,"date":"2011-06-18T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50768"},"modified":"2011-06-18T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:37:16","slug":"some-drivers-just-drifting-their-way-through-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50768","title":{"rendered":"Some Drivers Just Drifting Their Way Through Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fort Worth, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Screeching tires, billowing white smoke and the smell of burning rubber serve as Michael Essa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calling card, one that likely would drive his authorized BMW dealer to tears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Essa is a third-season competitor with Formula DRIFT, an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extreme motorsport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that made its debut\u00c2\u00a0 at Texas Motor Speedway in a non-points competition last Saturday evening. Eight series regulars competed in a traditional bracket elimination tournament as lead-in to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racintoday.com\/archives\/27925\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Fort Worth, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Screeching tires, billowing white smoke and the smell of burning rubber serve as Michael Essa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calling card, one that likely would drive his authorized BMW dealer to tears. Essa is a third-season competitor with Formula DRIFT, an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extreme motorsport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that made its debut\u00c2\u00a0 at Texas Motor Speedway in a non-points competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50768","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=50768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50770,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50768\/revisions\/50770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}