{"id":671,"date":"2009-02-06T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:05:41","slug":"nascar-notebook-bud-shootout-has-new-format-but-not-all-drivers-are-satisfied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; NASCAR Notebook: Bud Shootout has new format, but not all drivers are satisfied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still the Budweiser Shootout, but the traditional non-points prelude to the Daytona 500 will have a different look and feel Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>With a record 28-car field, including several drivers who wouldn&#8217;t have qualified under the old rules, the 31st Shootout will seem more like an exhibition race than an all-star race.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Dale Earnhardt Jr., for one, doesn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just (stinks), because I&#8217;m such a historian of the sport,&#8221; Earnhardt said&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.journalnow.com\/content\/2009\/feb\/06\/bud-shootout-has-new-format-but-not-all-drivers-ar\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still the Budweiser Shootout, but the traditional non-points prelude to the Daytona 500 will have a different look and feel Saturday night. With a record 28-car field, including several drivers who wouldn&#8217;t have qualified under the old rules, the 31st Shootout will seem more like an exhibition race than an all-star race. Defending champion [&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-671","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\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}