{"id":21779,"date":"2020-06-22T03:35:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/watch\/racingdreams\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:37:43","slug":"racingdreams","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/films\/racingdreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fondly described as &#8220;<em>Talladega Nights<\/em> meets <em>Catcher in the Rye<\/em>,&#8221; <strong>Racing Dreams<\/strong> chronicles a year in the life of three tweens who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. Though they aren&#8217;t old enough for driver&#8217;s licenses, Brandon, Josh and Annabeth race extreme go-karts at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in the World Karting Association&#8217;s National Pavement Series, the &#8220;Little League&#8221; of professional racing. The film by Marshall Curry (Oscar&reg;-nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/streetfight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Street Fight<\/strong><\/a>, POV 2005; Oscar&reg;-nominated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/ifatreefalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>If a Tree Falls<\/strong><\/a>, POV 2011) is a humorous and heartbreaking portrait of racing, young love and family struggle. <em>Winner of Best Documentary Feature Award, Tribeca Film Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fondly described as &#8220;Talladega Nights meets Catcher in the Rye,&#8221; Racing Dreams chronicles a year in the life of three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21780,"template":"","show":[22],"film_type":[37],"filmmaker":[831],"class_list":["post-21779","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","show-pov","topic-family-society","topic-youth","film_type-feature","filmmaker-marshall-curry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/21779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/21779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170441,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/21779\/revisions\/170441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show?post=21779"},{"taxonomy":"film_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film_type?post=21779"},{"taxonomy":"filmmaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filmmaker?post=21779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}