{"id":9654,"date":"2014-12-02T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=9654"},"modified":"2014-12-02T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:12:56","slug":"tony-thacker-prepares-to-open-world-of-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/tony-thacker-prepares-to-open-world-of-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Thacker Prepares to Open World of Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\" http:\/\/worldofspeed.org\/news\/\">World of Speed<\/a> museum, designed to be a unique motorsports educational experience, is getting ready to open it&#8217;s doors in April 2015. Check out this interview between Thacker and The Burnout contributor Joe Casvin. \u00a0Thacker, previous director of the \u00a0<a title=\"Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wally_Parks_NHRA_Motorsports_Museum\">Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum<\/a>,\u00a0gives us a little preview of the museum&#8217;s collection and talks about what he loves about drag racing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9siYr3MAVWE\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The World of Speed museum is getting ready to open it&#8217;s doors in April 2015.  Check out this interview between Thacker and The Burnout contributor Joe Casvin.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":9662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470],"tags":[2,1638,1632,1630,1639,1631],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","tag-drag-racing","tag-interview","tag-racing","tag-tony-thacker","tag-wally-parks-nhra-museum","tag-world-of-speed-museum","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Tony-Thacker-FEATURED.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2vI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9691,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions\/9691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}