{"id":56751,"date":"2011-11-20T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56751"},"modified":"2011-11-20T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:35:35","slug":"nascar-tony-stewart-captures-ford-400-nascar-sprint-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56751","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Tony Stewart captures Ford 400, NASCAR Sprint Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tony Stewart simply wouldn&#8217;t be denied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rain delays, damage to the grill of his car, pit problems &#8212; all of that was no problem for NASCAR&#8217;s newest three-time points king. Stewart ran past all those challenges, then tracked down and ran past Carl Edwards to capture both the Ford 400 and NASCAR&#8217;s Sprint Cup championship with a thrilling performance at Homestead-Miami Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stewart and Edwards finished tied in the points standings with 2,403 points but\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/fl-nascar-ford-400-updates-1120,0,704830.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29\" 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>Tony Stewart simply wouldn&#8217;t be denied. Rain delays, damage to the grill of his car, pit problems &#8212; all of that was no problem for NASCAR&#8217;s newest three-time points king. Stewart ran past all those challenges, then tracked down and ran past Carl Edwards to capture both the Ford 400 and NASCAR&#8217;s Sprint Cup championship [&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-56751","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\/56751","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=56751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56753,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56751\/revisions\/56753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}