{"id":59019,"date":"2012-01-15T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=59019"},"modified":"2012-01-15T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:45:01","slug":"drag-racings-big-daddy-don-garlits-turns-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=59019","title":{"rendered":"Drag racing&#8217;s &#8216;Big Daddy&#8217;, Don Garlits, turns 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don Garlits, a three-time champion in drag racing&#8217;s premier top-fuel class who also revolutionized the sport with a new car design in the 1970s, celebrated his 80th birthday Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Known as &#8220;Big Daddy,&#8221; Garlits designed a safer, faster rear-engine dragster after being seriously hurt in 1970 when his front-engine dragster exploded at the old Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington. The rear-engine design, with the engine behind the driver&#8217;s cockpit, is\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2012\/01\/big-daddy-don-garlits-nhra-drag-racing-pomona.html\" 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>Don Garlits, a three-time champion in drag racing&#8217;s premier top-fuel class who also revolutionized the sport with a new car design in the 1970s, celebrated his 80th birthday Saturday. Known as &#8220;Big Daddy,&#8221; Garlits designed a safer, faster rear-engine dragster after being seriously hurt in 1970 when his front-engine dragster exploded at the old Lions [&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-59019","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\/59019","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=59019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59020,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59019\/revisions\/59020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}