{"id":18207,"date":"2010-04-03T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/03\/turkish-singer-sets-blind-speed-record-in-ferrari\/"},"modified":"2014-01-05T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:44:10","slug":"turkish-singer-sets-blind-speed-record-in-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/04\/03\/turkish-singer-sets-blind-speed-record-in-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish singer sets blind speed record in Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish pop-singer Metin Senturk became the world&#8217;s fastest unaccompanied blind driver on Friday and said he felt he had danced with death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senturk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senturk.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/senturk-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><br \/>\nSenturk wept as he emerged from a Ferrari F430 at Urfa airport in eastern Turkey to learn from Guinness World Records officials his average speed of 292.89 kph broke the previous record of 284 kph, held by a British bank manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are any words to describe this feeling. I am really happy. It was really hard, like a dance with death,&#8221; said Senturk, who has been blind since the age of three.<\/p>\n<p>Following Senturk in a separate vehicle was former rally driver Volkan Isik, who guided the blind man by radio.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Emin Caliskan; Writing by Alexandra Hudson)<br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/22\/20100402\/tod-oukoe-uk-turkey-blind-116e0fe.html\"> Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish pop-singer Metin Senturk became the world&#8217;s fastest unaccompanied blind driver on Friday and said he felt he had danced with death. Senturk wept as he emerged from a Ferrari F430 at Urfa airport in eastern Turkey to learn from Guinness World Records officials his average speed of 292.89 kph broke the previous record of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":18209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,922],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-18207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-world","tag-history-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}