{"id":66229,"date":"2012-07-03T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66229"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:37:11","slug":"nascar-richard-petty-turns-75-and-still-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66229","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Richard Petty Turns 75 and still the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No one commands such attention simply by walking into a room. It&#8217;s not just the hat, with those ostrich feathers emanating from a bauble centered above the brim. It&#8217;s not just the sunglasses, which tend to reflect the bustle around him. It&#8217;s not just his height, that 6-foot-2 frame which stands out notably in an era where drivers tend to be much shorter. It&#8217;s not just the power of 200 race victories and seven premier-division championships, as much a part of the man as his chambray blue shirts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the total package, from the tip of his Stetson to the toe of his cowboy boots, usually with sleeves rolled up and a smile on his face and one hand wielding a\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/120702\/dcaraviello-rpetty-birthday-column\/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 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one commands such attention simply by walking into a room. It&#8217;s not just the hat, with those ostrich feathers emanating from a bauble centered above the brim. It&#8217;s not just the sunglasses, which tend to reflect the bustle around him. It&#8217;s not just his height, that 6-foot-2 frame which stands out notably in an [&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-66229","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\/66229","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=66229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66230,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66229\/revisions\/66230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}