{"id":8341,"date":"2015-05-25T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2015-06-25T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:24:48","slug":"joie-chitwoodlegends-may-25-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/joie-chitwoodlegends-may-25-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Joie Chitwood<\/br>Legends May 25, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joie Chitwood wanted to race anything that he could get his hands on and he passed that adventurous spirit down to his son and his son’s son. Through his teenage years, Chitwood, Born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1912, had been working as a race mechanic in the Midwest. When he took the place of the cars driver, purely by chance, thus began an illustrious driving career that included numerous Sprint Car titles and a few trips to the Indy 500. Things changed during World War ll when, as Joie ll says, “racing was outlawed. . .”<\/p>\n

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Joie Chitwood wanted to race anything that he could get his hands on and he passed that adventurous spirit down to his son and his son’s son. Through his teenage years, Chitwood, Born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1912, had been working as a race mechanic in the Midwest. When he took the place of the cars driver, purely by chance, thus began an illustrious driving career that included numerous Sprint Car titles and a few trips to the Indy 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legends","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8344,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}