{"id":5051,"date":"2009-03-19T11:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2009-03-19T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:08:00","slug":"automobile-sports-car-fast-stars-fast-cars-12-hours-of-sebring-set-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Fast stars, fast cars: 12 Hours of Sebring set for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen it more and more lately: Race car drivers turning up on TV as celebrities. NASCAR star Jeff Gordon has co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly 11 times, open-wheel stars Mario and Michael Andretti were practically semi-regulars on Home Improvement, and just yesterday, NASCAR driver Jeff Burton appeared on General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, though, it has worked the other way, too. Plenty of show-business celebrities have tried their hand at motorsports.<\/p>\n<p>And some have been pretty successful&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/motorracing\/orl-sportsautostars19031909mar19,0,2200920.story\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen it more and more lately: Race car drivers turning up on TV as celebrities. NASCAR star Jeff Gordon has co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly 11 times, open-wheel stars Mario and Michael Andretti were practically semi-regulars on Home Improvement, and just yesterday, NASCAR driver Jeff Burton appeared on General Hospital. For decades, though, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","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=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}