{"id":626,"date":"2009-02-05T21:44:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2009-02-25T00:31:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:31:31","slug":"nhra-remains-fast-furious-but-safer-at-reduced-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"NHRA remains fast, furious but safer at reduced distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-627\" title=\"tf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/tf-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"tf\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inside-copy\">You can spot the die-hards at NHRA pro drag racing events by the T-shirts they wear or the signs they hold urging the sanctioning body to restore its nitro-methane classes to its trademark quarter-mile.<\/div>\n<div class=\"inside-copy\">This protest had its share of supporters in the stands and in the pits eight months ago, but grumbling about the NHRA shortening races in its two premier classes from 1,320 to 1,000 feet has dwindled to mumbling, even among its traditionalist drivers&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2009-02-04-season-preview_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can spot the die-hards at NHRA pro drag racing events by the T-shirts they wear or the signs they hold urging the sanctioning body to restore its nitro-methane classes to its trademark quarter-mile. This protest had its share of supporters in the stands and in the pits eight months ago, but grumbling about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","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\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}