{"id":65611,"date":"2012-06-15T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T02:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65611"},"modified":"2012-06-15T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T02:29:58","slug":"danica-patricks-nascar-interests-piqued-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65611","title":{"rendered":"Danica Patrick&#8217;s NASCAR interests piqued long ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was an idea pitched over a beer and grill, in a couple of folding chairs between motor coaches in the drivers&#8217; lot of Chicagoland Speedway. Scott St. John was on to something that September night in 2005. It just took a while for Danica Patrick to get there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Patrick was 23, in her first IndyCar season with Rahal Letterman, a mainstream sensation after finishing fourth and leading 19 laps as a rookie in the Indianapolis 500. She would win the pole at Chicago that weekend and finish sixth. But she was listening to\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/more-sports\/8056733\/danica-patrick-nascar-interests-piqued-long-ago\" 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>It was an idea pitched over a beer and grill, in a couple of folding chairs between motor coaches in the drivers&#8217; lot of Chicagoland Speedway. Scott St. John was on to something that September night in 2005. It just took a while for Danica Patrick to get there. Patrick was 23, in her first [&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-65611","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\/65611","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=65611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65612,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65611\/revisions\/65612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}