{"id":4594,"date":"2014-02-24T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2014-10-06T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:17:14","slug":"joe-louis-drives-the-worlds-fastest-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backpackingbear.com\/blog\/joe-louis-drives-the-worlds-fastest-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Louis drives the world&#8217;s fastest indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple of years ago, Anthony Hopkins portrayed <strong>Burt Munro<\/strong> in <strong><em>\u2018<\/em><\/strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worlds_fastest_indian\" target=\"_blank\">The World\u2019s Fastest Indian<\/a><\/em><strong><em>\u2018<\/em><\/strong> Movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Burt Munro<\/em> was a crazy New Zealander who pushed his home made, and highly modified 1920\u2019s Indian Motorcycle past the 300 km\/hr barrier in 1967 at the Bonneville Flats in the United States to break the land speed record for his class of motorbike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetraveltart.com\/worlds-fastest-indian\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Travel Tart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;A couple of years ago, Anthony Hopkins portrayed Burt Munro in \u2018The World\u2019s Fastest Indian\u2018 Movie. 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