{"id":26823,"date":"2010-01-21T21:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26823"},"modified":"2010-01-21T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:17:36","slug":"nascar-to-relax-some-of-its-rules-in-effort-to-energize-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR to relax some of its rules in effort to energize sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have at it, boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NASCAR is relaxing some of its rules this season, and encouraging drivers to show more aggression and emotion, in large part to answer a growing fan sentiment that the sport had gone stale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an age old saying that NASCAR, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIf you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rubbing, you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t racing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 NASCAR president Mike Helton said Thursday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the NASCAR fan, the NASCAR stakeholders all bought into, and all expect.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first change will be evident when\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-2010changes&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=3398&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have at it, boys. NASCAR is relaxing some of its rules this season, and encouraging drivers to show more aggression and emotion, in large part to answer a growing fan sentiment that the sport had gone stale. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an age old saying that NASCAR, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIf you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rubbing, you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t racing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 NASCAR president Mike Helton [&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-26823","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\/26823","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=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}