{"id":43917,"date":"2011-02-01T20:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43917"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:57:03","slug":"patrick-dempsey-juggles-both-acting-and-racing-in-1-successful-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43917","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dempsey juggles both acting and racing in 1 successful weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was no fluke when Patrick Dempsey led laps overnight in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The actor best known as McDreamy from his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd on &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; has worked hard at his racing career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The validation came last weekend when Dempsey led his first laps in the Grand-Am Series and helped his race team earn its first podium with a third-place finish Sunday in the prestigious sports car race\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-car-grand-am-dempseys-dream,0,2966757.story\" 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>It was no fluke when Patrick Dempsey led laps overnight in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The actor best known as McDreamy from his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd on &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; has worked hard at his racing career. The validation came last weekend when Dempsey led his first laps in the Grand-Am Series and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43917","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=43917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43918,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43917\/revisions\/43918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}