{"id":78751,"date":"2013-05-02T14:02:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78751"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:02:03","slug":"auto-racing-danny-thompsons-lsr-diary-mystical-bonneville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78751","title":{"rendered":"Auto Racing &#8211; Danny Thompson&#8217;s LSR diary: Mystical Bonneville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What&#8217;s so great about a dried-up lake in the middle of the desert? It inspires a kind of racing that you don&#8217;t get to see anywhere else. Rank amateurs labor next to hardened veterans under the boiling sun, moving heaven and earth to wring just a few more miles per hour out of everything from electric bicycles to million dollar streamliners. It&#8217;s a mystical place, a throwback to a time that felt messy and pioneering. If you haven&#8217;t been, go. It must be experienced to be understood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although Bonneville holds an exalted position in my dad&#8217;s personal canon, I didn&#8217;t\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/danny-thompsons-lsr-diary-mystical-bonneville\/article\/291646\/\" 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>What&#8217;s so great about a dried-up lake in the middle of the desert? It inspires a kind of racing that you don&#8217;t get to see anywhere else. Rank amateurs labor next to hardened veterans under the boiling sun, moving heaven and earth to wring just a few more miles per hour out of everything from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78751","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=78751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78752,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78751\/revisions\/78752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}