{"id":5303,"date":"2009-03-20T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2009-03-20T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T03:55:09","slug":"automobile-nascar-martin-edges-newman-for-second-consecutive-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5303","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Martin edges Newman for second consecutive pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The floodgates are open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After breaking a 257-race pole drought at Atlanta two weeks ago, Mark Martin topped his second consecutive Sprint Cup qualifying session, streaking around .533-mile Bristol Motor Speedway in 15.256 seconds (125.773 mph) Friday to win the pole for Sunday&#8217;s Food City 500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Martin won back-to-back poles for the second time in his career, having claimed the top starting spot &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/03\/20\/mmartin.bristol.pole\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/headlines\/cup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floodgates are open. After breaking a 257-race pole drought at Atlanta two weeks ago, Mark Martin topped his second consecutive Sprint Cup qualifying session, streaking around .533-mile Bristol Motor Speedway in 15.256 seconds (125.773 mph) Friday to win the pole for Sunday&#8217;s Food City 500. Martin won back-to-back poles for the second time in [&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-5303","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\/5303","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=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}