{"id":14414,"date":"2009-06-12T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14414"},"modified":"2009-06-12T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T21:18:40","slug":"automobile-nascar-kyle-busch-enjoys-being-the-center-of-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14414","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Kyle Busch enjoys being the center of controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Controversy just seems to naturally swirl around Kyle Busch. And it seems the more uproar, the more NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad boy enjoys it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latest conflict, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153GuitarGate,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the result of Busch slamming the winner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trophy\u00e2\u20ac\u201da hand-painted Les Paul guitar\u00e2\u20ac\u201dagainst the ground after winning last Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nationwide Series race at Nashville Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Busch said he was trying to break up the unique trophy so he could give each member of his Joe Gibbs Racing team a piece of the award they had helped him earn with his first win at the Tennessee track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The young driver shrugged off the ensuing criticism, but the uproar has &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-michigan&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3700955?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy just seems to naturally swirl around Kyle Busch. And it seems the more uproar, the more NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad boy enjoys it. The latest conflict, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153GuitarGate,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the result of Busch slamming the winner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trophy\u00e2\u20ac\u201da hand-painted Les Paul guitar\u00e2\u20ac\u201dagainst the ground after winning last Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nationwide Series race at Nashville Speedway. Busch said he was [&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-14414","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\/14414","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=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14449,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions\/14449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}