{"id":53638,"date":"2011-08-25T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53638"},"modified":"2011-08-25T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:18:16","slug":"danica-patrick-to-leave-indycar-behind-for-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53638","title":{"rendered":"Danica Patrick to leave IndyCar behind for NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the not-so-subtle shape of a stock car under cover just in front of her and spotlights glaring in her face, <span style=\"color: #0069aa;\">Danica Patrick<\/span> feigned drama for an announcement everyone already knew was coming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For breaking news that will shock the world \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said facetiously on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Peeling the lid off the worst-kept secret in auto racing, Patrick ended months of skirting questions about her future by officially declaring her plans to leave IndyCar in 2012 to race a full Nationwide season for JR Motorsports and a part-time Sprint Cup schedule with Stewart-Haas Racing\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-patricksswitch\" 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>With the not-so-subtle shape of a stock car under cover just in front of her and spotlights glaring in her face, Danica Patrick feigned drama for an announcement everyone already knew was coming. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For breaking news that will shock the world \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said facetiously on Thursday. Peeling the lid off the worst-kept secret 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":[7,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53638","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=53638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53639,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53638\/revisions\/53639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}