{"id":69107,"date":"2012-08-24T06:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69107"},"modified":"2012-08-24T06:59:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:59:49","slug":"drag-racing-women-have-need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69107","title":{"rendered":"Drag-racing women have need for speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Elaine Larsen said she grew up in a Mennonite community in the backwoods of Michigan, wearing conservative clothes and living a conservative lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then she met Chris Larsen, the man who would become her husband as well as her crew chief. He thought she needed to loosen up a little so he put her behind the wheel of a vehicle capable of reaching speeds of more than 300 mph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little did he know he was unleashing a dragon,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Larsen said\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/qctimes.com\/sports\/motor-sports\/drag-racing-women-have-need-for-speed\/article_ae176288-ed88-11e1-ad26-0019bb2963f4.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>Elaine Larsen said she grew up in a Mennonite community in the backwoods of Michigan, wearing conservative clothes and living a conservative lifestyle. Then she met Chris Larsen, the man who would become her husband as well as her crew chief. He thought she needed to loosen up a little so he put her behind [&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-69107","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\/69107","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=69107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69108,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69107\/revisions\/69108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}