{"id":2578,"date":"2009-03-05T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:06:57","slug":"smith-gilliland-rate-raves-on-the-top-35-firing-line-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Smith, Gilliland rate raves on the top-35 firing line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not an event throughout the 36-race Sprint Cup schedule where NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s begrimed top-35 rule doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t loom over the landscape like King Kong perched atop the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n<p>It smells about that bad, too.<\/p>\n<p>But as the 2009 season creeps toward Race 6 at Martinsville\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe first event where the current year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 points will be used to set the 35 guaranteed starting positions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to recognize some significant accomplishments by a couple of the sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s smaller organizations&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-ramblings-sprintcup-20090303&amp;prov=nascar_com&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not an event throughout the 36-race Sprint Cup schedule where NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s begrimed top-35 rule doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t loom over the landscape like King Kong perched atop the Empire State Building. It smells about that bad, too. But as the 2009 season creeps toward Race 6 at Martinsville\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe first event where the current year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 points will [&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-2578","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\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}