{"id":74245,"date":"2013-01-13T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T05:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=74245"},"modified":"2013-01-13T22:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T05:27:56","slug":"senegal-asks-dakar-rally-to-come-back-or-change-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=74245","title":{"rendered":"Senegal asks Dakar Rally to come back or change name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Youssou N&#8217;Dour, Senegal&#8217;s Minister of Culture and Tourism, has asked the organizers of the iconic Dakar Rally to either bring the race back to its homeland of Africa or pick a different name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The last time Dakar participants drove through Africa was in 2007. The following year, a terrorist group in Mauritania threatened to attack competitors so the race was canceled at the very last minute. It has been held in South America ever since\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanenews.com\/senegal-wants-dakar-rally-to-come-back-or-change-name.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>Youssou N&#8217;Dour, Senegal&#8217;s Minister of Culture and Tourism, has asked the organizers of the iconic Dakar Rally to either bring the race back to its homeland of Africa or pick a different name. The last time Dakar participants drove through Africa was in 2007. The following year, a terrorist group in Mauritania threatened to attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,45,60,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-off-road-auto","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74245","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=74245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74246,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74245\/revisions\/74246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}