{"id":124976,"date":"2016-11-21T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124976"},"modified":"2016-11-21T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T03:53:36","slug":"jimmie-johnson-showcases-why-hes-nascars-best-with-7th-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=124976","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson showcases why he&#8217;s NASCAR&#8217;s best with 7th championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-entry-summary p-dek\"><em>After a season where he looked anything but a champion, Jimmie Johnson won the sweetest title of his career on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If Jimmie Johnson had a date with destiny, by all appearances it wasn&#8217;t going to happen Sunday night. Her date was going to be with Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, or Joey Logano, all of whom were better positioned to drive away with the 2016 championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>A weekend that had begun with positive vibes as Johnson sought to win a record-tying seventh Sprint Cup title took a different turn about an hour before the season-ending championship final went green. NASCAR inspectors determined something was amiss on the A-post of the No. 48 Chevrolet that needed\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nascar\/2016\/11\/21\/13696034\/nascar-2016-homestead-recap-results-jimmie-johnson-record-seventh-championship\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a season where he looked anything but a champion, Jimmie Johnson won the sweetest title of his career on Sunday. If Jimmie Johnson had a date with destiny, by all appearances it wasn&#8217;t going to happen Sunday night. Her date was going to be with Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, or Joey Logano, all of [&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-124976","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\/124976","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=124976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124977,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124976\/revisions\/124977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}