{"id":7865,"date":"2009-04-07T10:36:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:36:40","slug":"automobile-sports-car-your-chance-to-race-at-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7865","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Your chance to race at Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7866\" title=\"ferrari-430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/ferrari-430.bmp\" alt=\"ferrari-430\" \/>Don Kitch Jr., the head of Team Seattle, is trying to raise $1 million for the Seattle Children&#8217;s Infant Cardiac Care Unit by selling space on the team&#8217;s Ferrari 430; $500 for a 1-by-1-inch photo of you or someone you love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s hard to see what a race-car driver has in common with a sick kid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But then the commonalities take shape: Patience. Courage. The pit stops. The panic. And always, a steady eye on the finish line. On victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You think about it all when you talk with Don Kitch Jr., the head of Team Seattle, an endurance car-racing team that just found out that it had won a spot in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I cried,&#8221; Kitch told me &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nicolebrodeur\/2008997035_brodeur07m.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Kitch Jr., the head of Team Seattle, is trying to raise $1 million for the Seattle Children&#8217;s Infant Cardiac Care Unit by selling space on the team&#8217;s Ferrari 430; $500 for a 1-by-1-inch photo of you or someone you love. It&#8217;s hard to see what a race-car driver has in common with a sick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,71,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","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=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}