{"id":400,"date":"2013-09-12T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-09-12T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:59:19","slug":"races-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Races&#8211;Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two classes I watched were Sport, a modern kit-built prop plane capable of 350 mph, and the WWII T-6 which are big, old, noisy, and not particularly fast.  While I&#8217;m at the RV I can kinda watch the other classes, and I&#8217;m thinking the jets will be a favorite simply because of the speeds involved (500+).<\/p>\n<p>Close finishes are rare as these are weeding-out races, the fastest advance to the next heat.  But I did get a taste of the fun when the last two planes in Sport &#8220;battled&#8221; it out for a photo-finish.  First real racing I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>Getting some rain drops now, which will likely not amount to anything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two classes I watched were Sport, a modern kit-built prop plane capable of 350 mph, and the WWII T-6 which are big, old, noisy, and not particularly fast. While I&#8217;m at the RV I can kinda watch the other classes, and I&#8217;m thinking the jets will be a favorite simply because of the speeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}