{"id":41442,"date":"2010-12-09T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41442"},"modified":"2010-12-09T20:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T03:41:38","slug":"rick-hendrick%e2%80%99s-journey-to-a-nascar-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41442","title":{"rendered":"Rick Hendrick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Journey to a NASCAR Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rick Hendrick started out with the simple life working on the family farm in Virginia, but he was always interested in cars and speed.\u00c2\u00a0 He worked with his father building cars and went drag racing in an old Chevy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While still in high school he won a contest for building engines.\u00c2\u00a0 His thoughts of becoming a baseball player faded and he attended North Carolina University in a program that had him also working at Westinghouse Electric Company in Raleigh, N.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He then decided to purchase a used car lot with the help of an established new car dealer and it was named Hendrick Automotive Group.\u00c2\u00a0 In 1976 he sold his assets to\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedwaymedia.com\/?p=4918\" 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>Rick Hendrick started out with the simple life working on the family farm in Virginia, but he was always interested in cars and speed.\u00c2\u00a0 He worked with his father building cars and went drag racing in an old Chevy. While still in high school he won a contest for building engines.\u00c2\u00a0 His thoughts of becoming [&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-41442","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\/41442","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=41442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41460,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442\/revisions\/41460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}