{"id":68243,"date":"2012-08-06T06:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68243"},"modified":"2012-08-06T06:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:42:17","slug":"nascar-1-dead-9-injured-in-lightning-strike-at-pocono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68243","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; 1 dead, 9 injured in lightning strike at Pocono"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lightning strikes at Pocono Raceway after a rain-shortened NASCAR race Sunday killed one fan and injured nine others, one critically, racetrack officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Multiple lightning strikes occurred behind the racetrack&#8217;s grandstands and outside one of the gates as fans were leaving, Pocono spokesman Bob Pleban said. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear how many of the fans were actually struck by the lightning itself or were injured by related jolts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8221;Unfortunately,\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/pocono-10-injured-lightning-strike-232255957--nascar.html\" 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>Lightning strikes at Pocono Raceway after a rain-shortened NASCAR race Sunday killed one fan and injured nine others, one critically, racetrack officials said. Multiple lightning strikes occurred behind the racetrack&#8217;s grandstands and outside one of the gates as fans were leaving, Pocono spokesman Bob Pleban said. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear how many of the fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-misc","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243","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=68243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68245,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243\/revisions\/68245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}