{"id":95,"date":"2005-06-13T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp\/?p=95"},"modified":"2005-06-13T01:26:36","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T07:26:36","slug":"race-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/race-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my prerace prediction didn&#8217;t come through, but wow, what a race! Tomas Scheckter beat Sam Hornish, Jr. by less than a car length for yet another super-close TMS IRL race finish. <\/p>\n<p>I took a ton of photos, many by pointing my Canon A95 through my dad&#8217;s binoculars. I was surprised how well it worked. (Focusing was <em>really<\/em> tedious, though.) I&#8217;ve broken the pictures up into three sets &#8212; one for each race. Click on any of the links below for the pics from that event. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/sets\/447534\/\">USRA NGK Spark Plugs 100<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/sets\/447668\/\">Menard&#8217;s Infiniti Pro Series Firestone 100<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/sets\/448083\/\">IRL Bombadier Learjet 500K<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, here it is, your moment of Zen:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/blogpics\/baptist_beer_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Beer stand run by a missionary baptist church\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my prerace prediction didn&#8217;t come through, but wow, what a race! Tomas Scheckter beat Sam Hornish, Jr. by less than a car length for yet another super-close TMS IRL race finish. I took a ton of photos, many by pointing my Canon A95 through my dad&#8217;s binoculars. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}