{"id":93469,"date":"2014-04-25T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93469"},"modified":"2014-04-25T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T04:24:54","slug":"drag-racing-garlits-electric-dragster-shooting-for-200-mph-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=93469","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing &#8211; Garlits, electric dragster shooting for 200 mph next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A drag racing legends is hoping a rechargeable dragster will bring him a little fountain of youth. &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Don Garlits will race his &#8220;Swamp Rat&#8221; SR-37 at Florida&#8217;s Brandenton Motorsports Park on April 30. The goal is to become the first dragster of its kind to break 200 miles per hour on a quarter-mile track.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old Garlits, who first broke the 200 mph mark in 1964 and has 17 drag-racing world championships to his name, will have plenty of help\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2014\/04\/25\/garlits-electric-dragster-shooting-200-mph-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drag racing legends is hoping a rechargeable dragster will bring him a little fountain of youth. &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Don Garlits will race his &#8220;Swamp Rat&#8221; SR-37 at Florida&#8217;s Brandenton Motorsports Park on April 30. The goal is to become the first dragster of its kind to break 200 miles per hour on a quarter-mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93469","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=93469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93470,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93469\/revisions\/93470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}