{"id":5811,"date":"2009-03-24T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:16:57","slug":"automobile-nascar-should-hendrick-separate-dale-jr-tony-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5811","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Should Hendrick separate Dale Jr., Tony Jr.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Nothing gets Dale Earnhardt Jr. riled up more than hearing criticism aimed at his cousin and crew chief, Tony Eury Jr.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eury, of course, is Hendrick Motorsports&#8217; biggest scapegoat, getting most of the blame for his team&#8217;s struggles over the last year, and Earnhardt Jr. doesn&#8217;t like it. When he hears it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is quite often these days \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he quickly goes on the defensive, defending Eury and begging fans and the media to back off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe there is a simple solution to this ongoing saga: Maybe it&#8217;s time for team owner Rick Hendrick to break up the two cousins, pairing Earnhardt Jr. with a new crew chief and moving Eury into a new role&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nascar\/story\/9374464\/Should-Hendrick-separate-Dale-Jr.,-Tony-Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/placeholder-3691232?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing gets Dale Earnhardt Jr. riled up more than hearing criticism aimed at his cousin and crew chief, Tony Eury Jr. \u00c2\u00a0 Eury, of course, is Hendrick Motorsports&#8217; biggest scapegoat, getting most of the blame for his team&#8217;s struggles over the last year, and Earnhardt Jr. doesn&#8217;t like it. When he hears it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which [&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-5811","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\/5811","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=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}