{"id":64633,"date":"2012-05-21T06:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64633"},"modified":"2012-05-21T06:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:45:50","slug":"automobile-racing-danny-ongais-the-flying-hawaiian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64633","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Racing &#8211; Danny Ongais, the &#8220;Flying Hawaiian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tip of the cap to the &#8220;Flying Hawaiian,&#8221; Danny Ongais, who turns 70 today.<\/p>\n<p>In a career that spanned the 1960s to the 21st century, Danny Ongais captivated fans in IndyCars, Formula 1, drag racing cars and sports cars with his flamboyant, win-or-bust style. He scored six Indy car wins, but led many others before his car failed under him, unable to match his relentless pace, while a series of grinding crashes in Indy cars in the early &#8217;80s put a damper on his career.<\/p>\n<p>Still the only native Hawaiian to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/danny-ongais\/article\/240646\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip of the cap to the &#8220;Flying Hawaiian,&#8221; Danny Ongais, who turns 70 today. In a career that spanned the 1960s to the 21st century, Danny Ongais captivated fans in IndyCars, Formula 1, drag racing cars and sports cars with his flamboyant, win-or-bust style. He scored six Indy car wins, but led many others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64633","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=64633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64634,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64633\/revisions\/64634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}