{"id":70407,"date":"2012-09-28T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70407"},"modified":"2012-09-28T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:02:34","slug":"motorsports-chris-economaki-passes-away-at-age-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70407","title":{"rendered":"Motorsports &#8211; Chris Economaki passes away at age 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An icon, legend and pioneer of American motorsports journalism passed away Friday morning. Chris Economaki was 91.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Economaki was inextricably linked to National Speed Sport News, in its original guise, for more than 75 years. He began selling copies of the paper at age 14 and his famous Editor&#8217;s Notebook started roughly at the same time, in 1934.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Economaki&#8217;s paper sales as a teenager earned him\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/chris-economaki-passes-away-at-age-91\/article\/261228\/\" 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>An icon, legend and pioneer of American motorsports journalism passed away Friday morning. Chris Economaki was 91. Economaki was inextricably linked to National Speed Sport News, in its original guise, for more than 75 years. He began selling copies of the paper at age 14 and his famous Editor&#8217;s Notebook started roughly at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70407","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=70407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70408,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70407\/revisions\/70408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}