{"id":19394,"date":"2009-08-20T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2011-03-20T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T01:53:09","slug":"automobile-nascar-white-house-honors-nascar-champions-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19394","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; White House honors NASCAR champions, drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson had the gas to get to the White House on Wednesday, where President Barack Obama honored the 2008 winner as well as auto racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153NASCAR is a uniquely American sport,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Obama said beneath the South Portico, flanked by nine of the 12 drivers who competed last year for NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top prize. Three drivers had scheduling conflicts and could not attend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Obama said NASCAR drivers work to support U.S. troops, local schools and environmental innovation. Obama said the sport certainly has grown since \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moonshiners\u00e2\u20ac\u009d raced in Daytona Beach, Fla., to become a service-oriented organization known around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of the core values of the NASCAR community is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-obama-nascar&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson had the gas to get to the White House on Wednesday, where President Barack Obama honored the 2008 winner as well as auto racing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NASCAR is a uniquely American sport,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Obama said beneath the South Portico, flanked by nine of the 12 drivers who competed last year for [&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-19394","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\/19394","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=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46601,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions\/46601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}