{"id":14886,"date":"2003-05-02T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-02T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/02\/the-need-for-speed\/"},"modified":"2003-05-02T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-02T10:50:00","slug":"the-need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/02\/the-need-for-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need For Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/Southwest\/05\/01\/land.speed.record.ap\/\" target=\"_blank\">The land speed record for rail vehicles was broken on Wednesday<\/a> at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, when a rocket-powered sled traversed a 3-mile straightaway in 6 seconds, reaching a speed of Mach 8.6 (about 6,400 miles per hour).  Pretty damn impressive&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200231434?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The land speed record for rail vehicles was broken on Wednesday at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, when a rocket-powered sled traversed a 3-mile straightaway in 6 seconds, reaching a speed of Mach 8.6 (about 6,400 miles per hour). Pretty damn impressive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}