{"id":12805,"date":"2009-05-21T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12805"},"modified":"2009-05-21T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:01:33","slug":"automobile-nascar-gordon-hopes-procedure-will-stop-chronic-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12805","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Gordon hopes procedure will stop chronic back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeff Gordon found himself thinking about his back instead of his car. After hours of agony behind the wheel at Bristol Motor Speedway in March, Gordon wondered how much longer he could fight the pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If my back was the way it was at Bristol this year, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely going to shorten my career,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gordon said Thursday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t race like that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Sprint Cup points leader began a series of tests, which revealed minor arthritis and other issues. That led to a procedure on Monday that called for an injection of lidocaine or anti-inflammatory medication&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-gordon-badback&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Gordon found himself thinking about his back instead of his car. After hours of agony behind the wheel at Bristol Motor Speedway in March, Gordon wondered how much longer he could fight the pain. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If my back was the way it was at Bristol this year, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely going to shorten my career,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gordon [&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-12805","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\/12805","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=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12839,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}