{"id":77043,"date":"2013-03-26T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77043"},"modified":"2013-03-26T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:47:37","slug":"sports-car-the-24-hours-of-lemons-is-the-afterlife-for-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77043","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car &#8211; The 24 Hours Of Lemons Is The Afterlife For Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of the 24 Hours of Lemons racing series, so I was delighted to be asked to judge (along with Jalop alum Murilee Martin) at this past weekend&#8217;s race, the Sears Pointless. Judging a LeMons race is always a good time &#8212; you get lots of bribes (usually booze and Hot Wheels) and a nice heady intoxication of undeserved power, as judges can easily make or break a racer&#8217;s weekend. And sure, I was there for booze, toy cars, and sad power trips, but more than that, I was there for the cars.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like to think of the entire LeMons racing series as the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-24-hours-of-lemons-is-the-afterlife-for-cars-458805315\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of the 24 Hours of Lemons racing series, so I was delighted to be asked to judge (along with Jalop alum Murilee Martin) at this past weekend&#8217;s race, the Sears Pointless. Judging a LeMons race is always a good time &#8212; you get lots of bribes (usually booze and Hot Wheels) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77043","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=77043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77045,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77043\/revisions\/77045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}