{"id":5210,"date":"2021-06-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2021-06-12T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:30:00","slug":"friday-night-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our neighbors down the road about a half mile are in to stockcar racing. Both the father and one of the (teenage) sons race.  A couple of months ago, I was chatting with the dad and discovered that they race regularly at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.claremontmotorsportspark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claremont (NH) Speedway<\/a>, a bit more than an hour&#8217;s drive from Antrim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, on a cool and threatening rain, afternoon, I decided to head to Claremont to &#8216;check out&#8217; the scene. I was hoping to get there early and spend some time in the paddock photographing &#8216;behind the scenes&#8217;. Alas, that did not work out and I arrived only a bit before the first race. They got in about an hour&#8217;s racing before the rain began. The good news is that, because of the rain, my ticket is good for next Friday night as well!<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scrollGallery id=788 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbors down the road about a half mile are in to stockcar racing. Both the father and one of the (teenage) sons race. A couple of months ago, I was chatting with the dad and discovered that they race regularly at the Claremont (NH) Speedway, a bit more than an hour&#8217;s drive from Antrim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}