{"id":55050,"date":"2011-10-08T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55050"},"modified":"2011-10-08T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:16:55","slug":"sports-car-ferrari-250-gto-%e2%80%93-a-day-with-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55050","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car &#8211; Ferrari 250 GTO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Day with the Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My infatuation with the Ferrari marque goes back to the 1970s, and my \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcformative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 years. As a poorly eleven year-old, stricken by appendicitis and hospital-bound, my dear Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to a quick and happy recovery was to arrange for me to sit in a 308 GT4 on a local dealer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forecourt. A red Ferrari paddock jacket duly followed that Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fast forward thirty-odd years, and I make my living photographing all manner of classic and exotic cars. I can say with sincerity that\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportscardigest.com\/ferrari-250-gto-day-with-the-legend\/?awt_l=POqMg&amp;awt_m=IyN0SthwJus.C0\" 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>My infatuation with the Ferrari marque goes back to the 1970s, and my \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcformative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 years. As a poorly eleven year-old, stricken by appendicitis and hospital-bound, my dear Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to a quick and happy recovery was to arrange for me to sit in a 308 GT4 on a local dealer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forecourt. A red Ferrari paddock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55050","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=55050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55052,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55050\/revisions\/55052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}