{"id":73609,"date":"2012-12-28T19:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T02:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73609"},"modified":"2012-12-28T19:58:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T02:58:15","slug":"racing-on-a-ribbon-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=73609","title":{"rendered":"Racing on a ribbon of salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt is a remarkable tale from an era of American motorsport that has all but faded into legend, when ideas, determination and hard work were enough to fashion reality from dreams. David Abbott Jenkins, better known as &#8220;Ab,&#8221; almost single-handedly started the story of speed on the Bonneville Salt Flats of his native Utah, and with it much of the heritage of a whole branch of the sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After &#8220;discovering&#8221; the Salt Flats&#8217; potential for speed on a motorcycle in the 1920s, Jenkins became\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/review-racing-on-a-ribbon-of-salt\/article\/274041\/\" 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>Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt is a remarkable tale from an era of American motorsport that has all but faded into legend, when ideas, determination and hard work were enough to fashion reality from dreams. David Abbott Jenkins, better known as &#8220;Ab,&#8221; almost single-handedly started the story of speed on the [&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-73609","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\/73609","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=73609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73610,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609\/revisions\/73610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}