{"id":24665,"date":"2020-10-30T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=24665"},"modified":"2020-10-30T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:11:03","slug":"second-night-of-pinballz-go-kart-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2020\/10\/30\/second-night-of-pinballz-go-kart-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Second night of Pinballz Go Kart League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Despite missing the practice heat and driving a busted kart (#8) in the qualifier, no, really, it wasn&#8217;t my driving for a change; I had a better run last night. Given how much better\u2026well, all the league members are at this, I did manage to come in seventh place (out of eight, someone didn&#8217;t show). Again, I am proud to say when the race really mattered, I didn&#8217;t get lapped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After how shitty my qualifying run went, I had a spinout and my glasses were knocked off, I decided to change my strategy. Instead of driving aggressively, I went with a more focused approach of keeping everything steady. Despite falling behind the initial pack during the race&#8217;s first couple laps, I hung in there and when a small cluster resulted in one opponent getting spun out, I passed him and stayed ahead until the checkered flat. My average (or best?) lap time wasn&#8217;t as good as last week (over 20 seconds) but I pulled through and earned two points instead of the one pity point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Next week&#8217;s plan, definitely remember to participate on the practice run, maybe get something to keep my glasses from coming off and I gotta&#8217; get a mask which won&#8217;t fog up my glasses<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite missing the practice heat and driving a busted kart (#8) in the qualifier, no, really, it wasn&#8217;t my driving for a change; I had a better run last night. Given how much better\u2026well, all the league members are at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2020\/10\/30\/second-night-of-pinballz-go-kart-league\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[577,576],"class_list":["post-24665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-diversions","tag-go-karts","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24667,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665\/revisions\/24667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}