{"id":27866,"date":"2024-08-14T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27866"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:04:11","slug":"27866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27866","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FASTER THAN 400 MPH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/im-990524S.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/im-990524S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/im-990524S.jpg 570w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/im-990524S-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/im-990524S-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 85vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are only 13 people in the world who have driven faster than 400 mph in a piston-powered car. George Poteet did it more times than the other 12 combined. The King of Amateur Landspeed Racing, who said he never got a speeding ticket, has died at 76. He topped 400 mph at least 55 times, in a carbon-fiber-clad vehicle called &#8220;The Speed Demon&#8221;. -TWSJ<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Mark Gewertz, The Wall Street Journal) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FASTER THAN 400 MPH There are only 13 people in the world who have driven faster than 400 mph in a piston-powered car. George Poteet did it more times than the other 12 combined. The King of Amateur Landspeed Racing, who said he never got a speeding ticket, has died at 76. He topped 400 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27871,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions\/27871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}