{"id":178,"date":"2007-07-07T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-07-07T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:20:25","slug":"stock-car-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Stock Car Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we all went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordspeedwaypark.com\/main_index_2007.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hartford Speedway Park<\/a> in Hartford, MI (about 2 hours from Chicago) to watch stock car racing.&nbsp; This is a half-mile dirt oval track that has Factory Stock, Mini Stock, UMP Late Model, UMP Modifieds, Mini Sprints, Enduros, and Quads.&nbsp; We actually went to see a friend race in the Quads, which are like little one-cylinder two-stroke four-wheel ATVs.&nbsp; A friend from work helped the driver rebuild his Quad, and he was there watching his friend race.&nbsp; So we went, because it&#8217;s a good opportunity for the kids to&nbsp; (A) see <strong>REAL<\/strong> stock car racing, and (B) Meet the driver.<\/p>\n<p>This is what NASCAR was 30 years ago &#8211; a bunch of guys just racing their hearts out on a dirt track&nbsp; just for the thrill of it.&nbsp; And we all had a great time, and came home at 2:00 AM covered in dirt.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The pictures are <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.famille.org\/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&amp;g2_itemId=2403&amp;g2_fromNavId=x758cb290\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we all went to Hartford Speedway Park in Hartford, MI (about 2 hours from Chicago) to watch stock car racing.&nbsp; This is a half-mile dirt oval track that has Factory Stock, Mini Stock, UMP Late Model, UMP Modifieds, Mini Sprints, Enduros, and Quads.&nbsp; We actually went to see a friend race in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}