{"id":4628,"date":"2026-10-16T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:03:36","slug":"racing-family-mourns-the-loss-of-ken-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Racing Family Mourns the Loss of Ken Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news for our racing family. Racer and Ken Jones Performance founder Ken Jones passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Ken started his business in 1987, putting his knowledge of carburetors and Powerglide transmissions to work for fellow racers. He raced what he sold and understood firsthand what his customers needed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_8287.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4626\" width=\"1038\" height=\"831\"><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the parts, Ken believed in taking care of people before and after the sale. That\u2019s how you build relationships that last well beyond the finish line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_8289.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4627\" width=\"492\" height=\"681\"><\/p>\n<p>Please keep his family, friends, customers and everyone at Ken Jones Performance in your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Rest easy, Ken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news for our racing family. Racer and Ken Jones Performance founder Ken Jones passed away. Ken started his business in 1987, putting his knowledge of carburetors and Powerglide transmissions to work for fellow racers. He raced what he sold and understood firsthand what his customers needed. Beyond the parts, Ken believed in taking care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[61],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_8287-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_8287-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"DC Media","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/auteejay"},"authors":[{"term_id":61,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"auteejay","display_name":"DC Media","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d51765f05e753046aaf69cf0314e9a0f5c5945d8d9ed498ce027408f7d38abf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"DC","last_name":"Media","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}