{"id":6006,"date":"2009-03-26T10:34:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T17:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:13:34","slug":"automobile-nascar-indy-car-drag-racing-racing-success-still-elusive-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6006","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR Indy Car Drag Racing &#8211; Racing success still elusive for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1977, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to race in the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. Shirley Muldowney became the first woman to win a major racing championship, earning the NHRA Top Fuel title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Almost 32 years have passed since those historic days, but how much really has changed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More women are competing in motorsports, but Guthrie and Muldowney say real success at the tops levels of racing remains elusive for women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I think the doors are wide open for these ladies,&#8221; Muldowney said last week &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/womenshistory2009\/news\/story?id=4014187\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/placeholder-3691232?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1977, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to race in the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. Shirley Muldowney became the first woman to win a major racing championship, earning the NHRA Top Fuel title. Almost 32 years have passed since those historic days, but how much really has changed? More women are competing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","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=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}