{"id":56489,"date":"2011-11-12T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56489"},"modified":"2011-11-12T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T17:24:32","slug":"nascar-title-contenders-have-relationship-built-on-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56489","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Title contenders have relationship built on respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In many ways they are polar opposites, these two drivers from the extremes of the Midwest, as diverse as snarls and smiles or fitness and French fries. From their respective backgrounds to their waistlines to their car manufacturers, Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart are about as different as a pair of NASCAR racers can get. In a search for similarities, only their hometowns &#8212; Columbia (Mo.) and Columbus (Ind.) &#8212; sound close.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And yet, the hotly-contested battle for this year&#8217;s Sprint Cup championship has revealed\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/111112\/cedwards-tstewart-mutual-respect\/index.html?eref=%252Fnews%252Fheadlines%252Fcup&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+rss%252Fnews_cup+%2528RSS%253A+NEXTEL+Cup+Series%2529\" 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>In many ways they are polar opposites, these two drivers from the extremes of the Midwest, as diverse as snarls and smiles or fitness and French fries. From their respective backgrounds to their waistlines to their car manufacturers, Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart are about as different as a pair of NASCAR racers can get. [&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-56489","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\/56489","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=56489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56490,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56489\/revisions\/56490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}