{"id":11343,"date":"2009-05-05T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:27:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T20:27:55","slug":"automobile-nascar-ten-truths-we-hold-to-be-self-evident-after-10-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11343","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Ten truths we hold to be self evident after 10 races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As hard as it may be to believe, the Sprint Cup season is 10 races old already. By the end of this month, we&#8217;ll be halfway through the 26-race regular season that sets the field for the 10-race dash to the championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What have we learned? Who will be there at the end to compete in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ten races into the 2009 season, here are 10 things we know:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. Jeff Gordon is back. Then again, what about his back? Gordon ended a 47-race winless streak by winning in Texas at one of only two tracks on the current Sprint Cup circuit where he had never previously won. He has been the points &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-menzer-sprintcup-20090504&amp;prov=nascar_com&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hard as it may be to believe, the Sprint Cup season is 10 races old already. By the end of this month, we&#8217;ll be halfway through the 26-race regular season that sets the field for the 10-race dash to the championship. What have we learned? Who will be there at the end to compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11343","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\/11343","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=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11364,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions\/11364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}