{"id":2472,"date":"2009-03-04T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T02:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2009-08-19T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T06:05:49","slug":"jeff-gordons-back-on-top-and-thats-exactly-what-nascar-needs-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gordon&#8217;s back on top and that&#8217;s exactly what NASCAR needs right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NASCAR officials need to do a little rain dance, or pray to some racing Buddha, and ask for just one thing: Keep Jeff Gordon in the No. 1 slot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Right now, NASCAR desperately needs to keep Gordon leading the points to give fans a reason to care &#8211; or at the very least get animated over what&#8217;s unfolding on the track&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more_sports\/2009\/03\/04\/2009-03-04_jeff_gordons_back_on_top_and_thats_exact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR officials need to do a little rain dance, or pray to some racing Buddha, and ask for just one thing: Keep Jeff Gordon in the No. 1 slot. Right now, NASCAR desperately needs to keep Gordon leading the points to give fans a reason to care &#8211; or at the very least get animated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","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\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19229,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/19229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}