{"id":43743,"date":"2011-01-29T19:17:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43743"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:17:11","slug":"nascar-dale-earnhardt-jr-didnt-want-to-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43743","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Dale Earnhardt Jr. Didn&#8217;t Want to Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The son of the Intimidator said, &#8220;I never wanted to see another racetrack or race car,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 As he sat before the media at Hendrick Motorsports this week during the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He had lost his father, Dale Earnhardt, only one week before in the tragic crash on the final lap at Daytona International Speedway.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now it was Feb. 25, 2001, and time for the Dura Lube 400\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/588864-dale-earnhardt-jr-didnt-want-to-race\" 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>The son of the Intimidator said, &#8220;I never wanted to see another racetrack or race car,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 As he sat before the media at Hendrick Motorsports this week during the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway. He had lost his father, Dale Earnhardt, only one week before in the tragic crash on the [&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-43743","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\/43743","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=43743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43744,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43743\/revisions\/43744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}