{"id":66702,"date":"2012-07-15T07:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T14:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66702"},"modified":"2012-07-15T07:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T14:34:55","slug":"75-facts-about-the-all-american-soap-box-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66702","title":{"rendered":"75 facts about the All-American Soap Box Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-66703\" title=\"soap-box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/07\/soap-box-150x146.jpg\" alt=\"soap-box\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/soap-box-150x146.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/soap-box.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>This year marks the 75th running of the All-American Soap Box Derby, an Akron institution that has left a stream of colorful memories in its wake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In honor of the event\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milestone, here are 75 facts about the derby:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Its origin<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. The derby was inspired by neighborhood boys racing homemade cars on a Dayton street in 1933. When Dayton Daily News photographer Myron Scott spotted them, he convinced his newspaper to sponsor a citywide race. On race day, 40,000 spectators turned out to watch 362 kids race cars built of orange crates, sheet tin and baby buggy wheels\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/news\/local\/75-facts-about-the-all-american-soap-box-derby-1.320480\" 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>This year marks the 75th running of the All-American Soap Box Derby, an Akron institution that has left a stream of colorful memories in its wake. In honor of the event\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milestone, here are 75 facts about the derby: Its origin 1. The derby was inspired by neighborhood boys racing homemade cars on a Dayton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66702","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=66702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66705,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66702\/revisions\/66705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}