{"id":1138,"date":"2009-02-11T23:49:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2009-02-25T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T19:51:07","slug":"richard-pettys-funny-moment-in-final-nascar-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Richard Petty&#8217;s Funny Moment in Final NASCAR Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1139\" title=\"petty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/petty.bmp\" alt=\"petty\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When\u00c2\u00a0I think of the funniest moments in sports, I think of things that we rarely witness happening. Seemingly spot on, near-perfect athletes having moments that make them seem like they don&#8217;t always sit on the pedestal we place them on. I think of the moments that demonstrate they are human, that they are one of us.<\/p>\n<p>The date is Nov. 15, 1992. I am in\u00c2\u00a0the chilly grandstands of Atlanta Motor Speedway. This is a\u00c2\u00a0sentimental and memorable day. It is the final race of the NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) season. There is a tremendous championship battle taking place, with five drivers mathematically eligible to claim the title&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/122323-richard-petty-has-funny-non-family-moment-in-final-nascar-race\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00c2\u00a0I think of the funniest moments in sports, I think of things that we rarely witness happening. Seemingly spot on, near-perfect athletes having moments that make them seem like they don&#8217;t always sit on the pedestal we place them on. I think of the moments that demonstrate they are human, that they are one of [&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-1138","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\/1138","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=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}