{"id":1095,"date":"2011-08-18T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T00:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2011-08-18T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T01:08:15","slug":"gary-beck-seattle-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2011\/08\/18\/gary-beck-seattle-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Beck &#8211; Seattle Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/drag-racing\/news\/18520-gary-beck-q-a-a-seattle-racing-icon-shares-his-memories\">GARY BECK Q &amp; A: SEATTLE RACING ICON SHARES HIS MEMORIES<\/a> &#8211; <em>CompetitionPlus.com<\/em> &#8211; August 11, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Gary Beck, honored as the NHRA Legend in his native Seattle this past week at the O&#8217;Reilly Northwest Nationals, spoke with Competition Plus about building the Space Needle and his own drag-racing career. Find out why he drove his Beck &amp; Peets Export A Top Fuel Dragster around a road course and a circle track, how everybody thought he&#8217;s a Canadian citizen, who was his classmate all the way through school, and who was sniffing oil and how that affected him&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1098\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BECK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1098\" title=\"BECK\" src=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BECK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BECK.jpg 500w, https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BECK-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beck at Seattle courtesy of CompetitionPlus.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARY BECK Q &amp; A: SEATTLE RACING ICON SHARES HIS MEMORIES &#8211; CompetitionPlus.com &#8211; August 11, 2011 &#8220;Gary Beck, honored as the NHRA Legend in his native Seattle this past week at the O&#8217;Reilly Northwest Nationals, spoke with Competition Plus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2011\/08\/18\/gary-beck-seattle-legend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-feature-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}