{"id":31785,"date":"2010-05-11T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=31785"},"modified":"2010-05-11T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:04:28","slug":"nascar-hall-of-fame-opens-amidst-fanfare-fireworks-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=31785","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Hall of Fame opens amidst fanfare, fireworks, rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shortly after 10 a.m. ET Tuesday, the skies opened and so did the doors to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The timing could not have been better. After about three too many politicians and bankers rambled on about their roles in helping bring about the momentous occasion, which no doubt were vitally important, inaugural inductees Richard Petty and Junior Johnson roared into the ceremonial plaza in front of the Hall in race cars that they used to drive (well, Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s was a good-looking replica of a 1949 Ford coupe with his new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153legitimate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moonshine business advertised on the side).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A few more words from Hall executive director Winston Kelley and the inductees themselves\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-one.menz.jmenzer.hall.of.fame.HOF.charlotte.opening-20100511\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after 10 a.m. ET Tuesday, the skies opened and so did the doors to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.\u00c2\u00a0 The timing could not have been better. After about three too many politicians and bankers rambled on about their roles in helping bring about the momentous occasion, which no doubt were vitally important, inaugural inductees [&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-31785","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\/31785","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=31785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31838,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31785\/revisions\/31838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}