{"id":2214,"date":"2009-03-02T18:44:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2009-03-17T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T01:20:51","slug":"nascar%e2%80%99s-stimulus-program-recession-be-damned-fans%e2%80%99-open-their-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stimulus program &#8211; Recession be damned, fans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 open their wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They kept coming &#8230; and coming &#8230; and coming.<\/p>\n<p>And coming.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody saw that last \u00e2\u20ac\u0153coming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d coming.<\/p>\n<p>This was supposed to be the year when there were going to be acres of empty seats at our NASCAR Sprint Cup race. The economies, both national and local, are like a set of Goodyears that badly needs changing. You can see clear down to the steel belts.<\/p>\n<p>Sellout? No way. Ten days ago, speedway officials said ticket sales were down 15 to 20 percent. Which really means 25 to 30 percent. This economy is killing us, they said. Plus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/02\/nascars-stimulus-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They kept coming &#8230; and coming &#8230; and coming. And coming. Nobody saw that last \u00e2\u20ac\u0153coming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d coming. This was supposed to be the year when there were going to be acres of empty seats at our NASCAR Sprint Cup race. The economies, both national and local, are like a set of Goodyears that badly needs [&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-2214","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\/2214","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=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}