{"id":1028,"date":"2009-02-10T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:48:45","slug":"meet-sprint-cup-rookie-of-the-year-candidates-joey-logano-and-scott-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sprint Cup rookie of the year candidates Joey Logano and Scott Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Logano&#8217;s 18th birthday last May, Joe Gibbs and J.D. Gibbs wheeled in a cake shaped like a stock car dressed with black and red frosting to look like the Nationwide car Logano had just turned old enough to drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They were opening a news conference, but before that they wanted everyone in the room to sing &#8220;Happy birthday&#8221; in celebration of the day Logano was finally old enough to race in NASCAR&#8217;s national series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Logano&#8217;s 18th birthday was one of the most anticipated in racing. Three years earlier Mark Martin had hailed Logano as the next big thing&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/motorracing\/orl-sportsnascarrookies11021109feb11,0,1037229.story\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Logano&#8217;s 18th birthday last May, Joe Gibbs and J.D. Gibbs wheeled in a cake shaped like a stock car dressed with black and red frosting to look like the Nationwide car Logano had just turned old enough to drive. They were opening a news conference, but before that they wanted everyone in the room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19302,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/19302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}