{"id":58281,"date":"2011-12-29T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58281"},"modified":"2011-12-29T08:40:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T15:40:26","slug":"nascar-say-what-2011-nascar-filled-with-memorable-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=58281","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Say what? 2011 NASCAR filled with memorable quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a spectacular NASCAR season on the track, and no less interesting off it. From an overhaul of the sport&#8217;s points system in January to the closest Sprint Cup championship race ever in November, it was a year full of events that had everyone talking. Here are some of the best of those comments, in chronological order:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR president Mike Helton, explaining\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/111229\/year-in-quotes-2011\/index.html?eref=%2Fnews%2Fheadlines%2Fcup&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fnews_cup+%28RSS%3A+NEXTEL+Cup+Series%29\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a spectacular NASCAR season on the track, and no less interesting off it. From an overhaul of the sport&#8217;s points system in January to the closest Sprint Cup championship race ever in November, it was a year full of events that had everyone talking. Here are some of the best of those comments, [&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-58281","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\/58281","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=58281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58284,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58281\/revisions\/58284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}