{"id":647,"date":"2009-02-06T01:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2009-08-20T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:04:56","slug":"burning-desire-keeps-martin-from-slowing-down-at-age-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; &#8216;Burning desire&#8217; keeps Martin from slowing down at age 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-648\" title=\"martinx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/martinx-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"martinx\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">He doesn&#8217;t fish, doesn&#8217;t play golf and, admittedly, isn&#8217;t so good when it comes to lounging around the house.<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">What Mark Martin does well is race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">And after two years of recharging his batteries by driving a limited Cup schedule, he&#8217;s ready to do it again, full time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this time as a key component of NASCAR&#8217;s most successful team&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2009-02-05-mark-martin_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#8217;t fish, doesn&#8217;t play golf and, admittedly, isn&#8217;t so good when it comes to lounging around the house. What Mark Martin does well is race. And after two years of recharging his batteries by driving a limited Cup schedule, he&#8217;s ready to do it again, full time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this time as a key component [&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-647","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\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}