{"id":78490,"date":"2013-04-25T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78490"},"modified":"2013-04-25T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:52:51","slug":"kart-racing-going-racing-embracing-machismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78490","title":{"rendered":"Kart Racing &#8211; GOING RACING: Embracing &#8220;Machismo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are reading this, then the odds are that you have had the itch to go racing yourself. Many of you scratch the itch so repeatedly that if it weren&#8217;t for your well-groomed countenance, you might be mistaken for a heroin junkie seeking their next fix. Others have heeded the advice of your mother, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scratching only makes it worse.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d With all your reason and will, you&#8217;ve fought not to not give into it&#8217;s temptation. But, here&#8217;s an event that just might have you give in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Machismo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d now in its eighth edition, the race is the brainchild of Rob Niles, the founder and president of Karting Ventures,Inc. Niles runs the CalSpeed kart track at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., and is one of the most successful promoters of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153arrive and drive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d racing in the country\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/going-racing-embracing-machismo\/article\/290575\/\" 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>If you are reading this, then the odds are that you have had the itch to go racing yourself. Many of you scratch the itch so repeatedly that if it weren&#8217;t for your well-groomed countenance, you might be mistaken for a heroin junkie seeking their next fix. Others have heeded the advice of your mother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-karts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78490","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=78490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78491,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78490\/revisions\/78491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}