{"id":21623,"date":"2018-11-08T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21623"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:23:24","slug":"why-finland-loves-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21623","title":{"rendered":"Why Finland loves rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>On a rainy day in the autumn of 1987, seven-year-old Teemu Lampinen stood with his father on the sidelines of Finland&#8217;s 1000 Lakes Rally (now called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrc.com\/en\/wrc\/calendar\/finland-2018\/page\/699--699-682-.html\" target=\"_blank\">Neste Rally Finland<\/a>). <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">He watched wide-eyed as Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver turned politician, roared out of the blocks in a Ford Sierra. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I remember the car jumping and flames coming out of the fumes,&#8221; say Lampinen. For a young boy, it was a dream come true. That was the moment the self-confessed superfan fell in love with the sport.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)On a rainy day in the autumn of 1987, seven-year-old Teemu Lampinen stood with his father on the sidelines of Finland&#8217;s 1000 Lakes Rally (now called the Neste Rally Finland). He watched wide-eyed as Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver turned politician, roared out of the blocks in a Ford Sierra. &#8220;I remember the car jumping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}