{"id":39864,"date":"2010-11-05T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39864"},"modified":"2010-11-05T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T03:10:02","slug":"pastrana-could-breathe-life-into-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=39864","title":{"rendered":"Pastrana could breathe life into NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is an account of a month-long rambling thought process. I love NASCAR racing and I want it to flourish. But right now it&#8217;s not. Here&#8217;s why I believe one racer with unparalleled commercial appeal can help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NASCAR needs Travis Pastrana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was a sunny Saturday morning at Auto Club Speedway last month. The obnoxious hum of Sprint Cup Happy Hour practice was wailing in the background, and I was walking from the garage to the media room on the suite level, head buried in my Blackberry when a familiar voice hollered my name &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/racing\/blog\/_\/name\/smith_marty\/id\/5767704\/pastrana-breathe-life-nascar?campaign=rss&amp;source=RPMHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an account of a month-long rambling thought process. I love NASCAR racing and I want it to flourish. But right now it&#8217;s not. Here&#8217;s why I believe one racer with unparalleled commercial appeal can help. NASCAR needs Travis Pastrana. It was a sunny Saturday morning at Auto Club Speedway last month. The obnoxious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39864","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=39864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39867,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39864\/revisions\/39867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}