{"id":40261,"date":"2010-11-14T07:07:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40261"},"modified":"2010-11-14T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T14:11:10","slug":"nascar-danica-patrick-takes-lumps-at-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40261","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Danica Patrick takes lumps at Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As one motorsports executive said in a casual conversation, if Travis Pastrana wants an example of how not to break into NASCAR, the X Games star should take the opposite approach to Danica Patrick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Patrick, minus a few ARCA races, made the leap from the IndyCar Series to NASCAR by jumping right into the Nationwide Series. She didn&#8217;t get the benefits of working her way up through the late models or the K&amp;N Pro East Series, or even enough ARCA races &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/nascar\/nationwide\/columns\/story?columnist=newton_david&amp;id=5800876\" 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>As one motorsports executive said in a casual conversation, if Travis Pastrana wants an example of how not to break into NASCAR, the X Games star should take the opposite approach to Danica Patrick. Let me explain. Patrick, minus a few ARCA races, made the leap from the IndyCar Series to NASCAR by jumping right [&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-40261","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\/40261","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=40261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40267,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions\/40267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}