{"id":42414,"date":"2011-01-03T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42414"},"modified":"2011-01-03T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:38:42","slug":"nascar-hall-of-famer-junior-johnson-launches-new-racing-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=42414","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Hall of Famer Junior Johnson launches new racing team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hopes for Junior Johnson Racing to propel son Robert into the Sprint Cup Series<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Junior Johnson has launched a race team that he hopes will propel his son, 17-year-old Robert, eventually to the Sprint Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The elder Johnson, who was enshrined in NASCAR&#8217;s Hall of Fame as a member of its inaugural 2010 class of inductees, will run Junior Johnson Racing from shops on his 278-acre estate in Hamptonville, N.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keith Barnwell, JJR&#8217;s executive vice president and general manager, said Monday he was standing amid 800 head of cattle outside one of the two buildings the elder Johnson\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/110103\/junior-johnson-race-team\/index.html?eref=%252Fnews%252Fheadlines%252Fcup&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+rss%252Fnews_cup+%2528RSS%253A+NEXTEL+Cup+Series%2529\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Hopes for Junior Johnson Racing to propel son Robert into the Sprint Cup Series Junior Johnson has launched a race team that he hopes will propel his son, 17-year-old Robert, eventually to the Sprint Cup Series. The elder Johnson, who was enshrined in NASCAR&#8217;s Hall of Fame as a member of its inaugural 2010 class [&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-42414","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\/42414","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=42414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42416,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42414\/revisions\/42416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}