{"id":7595,"date":"2009-04-05T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2009-04-05T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T17:45:10","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-tisha-wilson-is-in-full-throttle-pursuit-of-her-racing-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7595","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Tisha Wilson is in full-throttle pursuit of her racing dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The way Tisha Wilson tells it, what happened that day at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga., was no big deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She was roaring down the track at 200-plus miles an hour in a nitro funny car. There was a &#8220;little incident.&#8221; An explosion. Some flames.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It burned my eyebrows,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Burned my driving suit. My feet felt hot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No big deal, really (her mother, Teresa Wilson, has a somewhat different take, as you will see). It&#8217;s just something that can happen when you combine explosive speed with explosive fuel mixtures while chasing your dream of becoming a professional drag racer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Still a few months shy of her 21st birthday, the South Rowan High grad has been &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salisburypost.com\/Area\/040509-tisha-wilson-dragracer\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way Tisha Wilson tells it, what happened that day at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga., was no big deal. She was roaring down the track at 200-plus miles an hour in a nitro funny car. There was a &#8220;little incident.&#8221; An explosion. Some flames. &#8220;It burned my eyebrows,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Burned my driving suit. [&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-7595","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\/7595","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=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}