{"id":57268,"date":"2011-12-03T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=57268"},"modified":"2011-12-03T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:03:38","slug":"nascar-johnson-gets-new-view-eventually-of-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=57268","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Johnson gets new view &#8212; eventually &#8212; of banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LAS VEGAS &#8212; When the key members of the championship team were being seated at the head table Friday evening to open the 2011 Sprint Cup Series awards banquet, Tony Stewart&#8217;s name was announced but Jimmie Johnson was the one who came out from behind the curtain to take his seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why not? Johnson&#8217;s had that prime piece of real estate for five consecutive banquets, and it took perhaps the best championship battle in NASCAR history to knock him off the dais\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/111203\/jjohnson-new-view-cup-banquet\/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>LAS VEGAS &#8212; When the key members of the championship team were being seated at the head table Friday evening to open the 2011 Sprint Cup Series awards banquet, Tony Stewart&#8217;s name was announced but Jimmie Johnson was the one who came out from behind the curtain to take his seat. Why not? Johnson&#8217;s had [&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-57268","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\/57268","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=57268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57269,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57268\/revisions\/57269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}