{"id":65675,"date":"2012-06-18T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65675"},"modified":"2012-06-18T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:45:00","slug":"nascar-junior-gives-a-lesson-in-perseverance-with-a-win-after-143-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=65675","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Junior gives a lesson in perseverance with a win after 143 races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s just one win. The first in four years, no less.<\/p>\n<p>And as Tony Stewart pointed out, Dale Earnhardt Jr. returning to Victory Lane doesn&#8217;t exactly warrant a national holiday.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a level of importance to Earnhardt snapping his 143-race losing streak that goes beyond the immediate boost to NASCAR, which has been starving of late for any sort of scintillating story line unrelated to another Kurt Busch meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>What Earnhardt did Sunday\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/pits-junior-gives-lesson-perseverance-222109280--nascar.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s just one win. The first in four years, no less. And as Tony Stewart pointed out, Dale Earnhardt Jr. returning to Victory Lane doesn&#8217;t exactly warrant a national holiday. But there is a level of importance to Earnhardt snapping his 143-race losing streak that goes beyond the immediate boost to NASCAR, which has [&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-65675","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\/65675","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=65675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65676,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675\/revisions\/65676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}