{"id":2239,"date":"2018-06-26T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2018-06-26T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:22:24","slug":"driving-is-about-forgetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"Driving is about forgetting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Working my way north, and trying to write on an iPad instead of the heavy-weight computer. First stop today was at a kart track to knock some of the rust off the driving skills. Jakester made a point of being almost two seconds faster than me \u2014 in my kart!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The heavy lead gets added to his kart next session to equalize our weights, then we\u2019ll see.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tomorrow the big car gets on the dyno for break-in and tune up, test and brake burn-in on Thursday, the season begins on Friday in Seattle. I\u2019ve not been away from racing this long since I started, 22 years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As he was mounting shocks last week, Jon found the passenger side half shaft was cracked nearly through. Better than finding it shifting into fourth on the main straight, or downshifting into third. All sorts of ugly avoided.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Weather is supposed to be good in Seattle. Jake says driving is the last thing I\u2019ll forget how to do. It\u2019s good to have his confidence On my side, but it\u2019s been a long time.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Had some interesting responses to the ads for the book, but received another positive review on Amazon. Sales are up and down, biut I\u2019m not disappointed.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I need to remember that driving fast is forgetting, not trying to recall each action that needs to be taken long before the thought is complete. Get in the car, buckle up and drive. That I can do.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working my way north, and trying to write on an iPad instead of the heavy-weight computer. First stop today was at a kart track to knock some of the rust off the driving skills. Jakester made a point of being almost two seconds faster than me \u2014 in my kart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-A7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}