{"id":57130,"date":"2011-12-01T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=57130"},"modified":"2011-12-01T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:43:38","slug":"sports-car-cj-wilson-baseball-pitcher-to-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=57130","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car &#8211; C.J. Wilson, Baseball pitcher to racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Growing up, C.J. Wilson always knew he wanted to race, but didn&#8217;t have the necessary financial backing to do so. His dad suggested he get a job where he made enough to support his racing career. So when Wilson recalls how his dream would one day become reality, he deadpans about a simple, yet powerful mantra that previewed his future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I straight up wrote down, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI will play baseball and I will drive awesome cars.&#8217; And that was it. That was the story,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/insight-cj-wilson-pitcher-to-racer\/article\/217916\/\" 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>Growing up, C.J. Wilson always knew he wanted to race, but didn&#8217;t have the necessary financial backing to do so. His dad suggested he get a job where he made enough to support his racing career. So when Wilson recalls how his dream would one day become reality, he deadpans about a simple, yet powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130","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=57130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57131,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions\/57131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}