{"id":11499,"date":"2009-05-06T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2009-05-06T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:56:58","slug":"automobile-sports-car-nascar-patrick-long-wants-to-be-racings-renaissance-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11499","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car NASCAR &#8211; Patrick Long wants to be racing&#8217;s Renaissance Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">American sports car star Patrick Long has diversified this season by moving into stock cars. He&#8217;s raced in NASCAR&#8217;s Camping World East, Whelen Weekly Late Model Series and ASA Late Models. Considering he had almost no previous oval experience &#8212; and none on pavement &#8212; he has done pretty well with a string of top-10 finishes. But is he just another accomplished driver looking to make the move to one of NASCAR&#8217;s national series? No, Long says. Not at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m on a multi-year deal with Porsche, and I&#8217;m committed to Porsche and sports cars,&#8221; Long explained. &#8220;They have the trust to allow me to race in some different forms of racing on the off-weekends, that I won&#8217;t get hurt and will be ready to race for them when they need me.&#8221; &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/tim_tuttle\/05\/05\/Tuttle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American sports car star Patrick Long has diversified this season by moving into stock cars. He&#8217;s raced in NASCAR&#8217;s Camping World East, Whelen Weekly Late Model Series and ASA Late Models. Considering he had almost no previous oval experience &#8212; and none on pavement &#8212; he has done pretty well with a string of top-10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","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=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11591,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}