{"id":44821,"date":"2011-02-20T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44821"},"modified":"2011-02-20T20:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:36:28","slug":"nascar-woods-brothers-turn-improbability-to-reality-behind-bayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44821","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Woods Brothers turn improbability to reality Behind Bayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The low point was three years ago at this very place, when the Wood Brothers failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 for the first time in more than four decades. They were outside the top 35 in driver points, they lost a gear in pole qualifying, and they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finish high enough in their qualifying event to make the sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest race. It felt, team co-owner Eddie Wood said, like somebody had died. Walking around the garage area afterward, other competitors would drop their gazes rather than look him in the eye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Until you go through it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put it into words.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For a proud organization that predates NASCAR itself, it was a devastating moment, and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-dcaraviello-tbayne-wood-brothers-improbable-victory-20110221\" 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 low point was three years ago at this very place, when the Wood Brothers failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 for the first time in more than four decades. They were outside the top 35 in driver points, they lost a gear in pole qualifying, and they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finish high enough in their [&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-44821","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\/44821","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=44821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44825,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821\/revisions\/44825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}