{"id":43815,"date":"2011-01-30T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43815"},"modified":"2011-01-30T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:08:50","slug":"nascar-waltrip-book-personal-account-of-struggles-in-aftermath-of-earnhardts-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43815","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Waltrip book personal account of struggles in aftermath of Earnhardt&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43816\" title=\"waltrip-book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/01\/waltrip-book.bmp\" alt=\"waltrip-book\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Michael Waltrip was riding &#8220;the streak&#8221; &#8212; an astounding 0-for-462 in Cup Series competition &#8212; he wasn&#8217;t exactly the sport&#8217;s hottest commodity.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yet, going into the 2001 season, there was one believer. Driver and team owner Dale Earnhardt gave Waltrip a ride. The seven-time NASCAR champ knew his severely snakebitten driver could win, and he devised a plan to deem it so at NASCAR&#8217;s grandest race, the Daytona 500\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/110130\/mwaltrip-dearnhardt-book\/\" 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>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 When Michael Waltrip was riding &#8220;the streak&#8221; &#8212; an astounding 0-for-462 in Cup Series competition &#8212; he wasn&#8217;t exactly the sport&#8217;s hottest commodity.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, going into the 2001 season, there was one believer. Driver and team owner Dale Earnhardt gave Waltrip a ride. The seven-time NASCAR champ knew his severely snakebitten driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815","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=43815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43818,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43815\/revisions\/43818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}