{"id":64459,"date":"2012-05-16T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64459"},"modified":"2012-05-16T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:51:28","slug":"nascars-pit-crews-get-their-chance-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64459","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR&#8217;s pit crews get their chance to shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Carl Edwards loves plenty of things about NASCAR&#8217;s All-Star week. One of his favorites, though, is seeing his crew members in the spotlight instead of himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Edwards&#8217; No. 99 team is among 24 Sprint Cup crews competing in the eighth NASCAR Pit Crew Challenge in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday night. Denny Hamlin&#8217;s No. 11 crew enters as two-time defending champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s cool for the drivers,&#8221; said Edwards, who plans to cheer on his crew at Time-Warner Cable Arena. &#8220;We get to show up and watch our guys perform and the pressure&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hH5xHblLz1zy7H0Wbg4sd69bbO1Q?docId=880d0c73bbc34db78f5d37eb1e0b1c48\" 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>Carl Edwards loves plenty of things about NASCAR&#8217;s All-Star week. One of his favorites, though, is seeing his crew members in the spotlight instead of himself. Edwards&#8217; No. 99 team is among 24 Sprint Cup crews competing in the eighth NASCAR Pit Crew Challenge in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday night. Denny Hamlin&#8217;s No. 11 crew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64459","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=64459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64461,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64459\/revisions\/64461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}