{"id":200,"date":"2005-11-30T23:33:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=200"},"modified":"2005-12-08T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T02:56:01","slug":"rally-of-the-tall-pines-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/rally-of-the-tall-pines-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally of the Tall Pines, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattclare\/sets\/1461217\/'><img src='http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_2304.jpg' alt='Iron Bridge' align=\"left\" class=\"padImage\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe highlight of this year&#8217;s race was a Castrol coloured hatchback that was having trouble breaking for the single lane iron bridge (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamclare\/68507079\/\">pictured here<\/a>) that is the modern icon of the rally.  My brother and I where standing behind the barrier that narrowed the road from two lanes to one.  The Golf hit the barrier just to the right of us, hit the other side and then got wedged on a 90&#8242; angle in the bridge (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamclare\/68507089\/\">pictured here<\/a>).  The spectators where eventually allowed to go out and help push (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamclare\/68507171\/\">pictured here<\/a>) and after they worked out how force and levers work they where able to push the hatchback off the bridge and the stage was re-oppened (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamclare\/68507208\/\">pictured here<\/a>) .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rally_car_almost_goes_off_in_snow.AVI\"><img src='http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_3310.jpg' alt='Rally car video' align=\"right\" class=\"padImage\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattclare\/sets\/1461217\/\">My Flickr gallery of the event can be found here<\/a> and <a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rally_car_almost_goes_off_in_snow.AVI\">the video of  car about to slide off the edge of a corner in the dark<\/a> (and into a lake) can be found <a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rally_car_almost_goes_off_in_snow.AVI\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of this year&#8217;s race was a Castrol coloured hatchback that was having trouble breaking for the single lane iron bridge (pictured here) that is the modern icon of the rally. My brother and I where standing behind the barrier that narrowed the road from two lanes to one. The Golf hit the barrier&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/rally-of-the-tall-pines-2005\/\">Continue Reading<span> Rally of the Tall Pines, 2005<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}