{"id":701,"date":"2009-02-06T04:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-08-20T11:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:04:04","slug":"let-the-madness-begin-what-can-we-expect-from-the-2009-bud-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Let the madness begin &#8211; What can we expect from the 2009 Bud Shootout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Saturday night&#8217;s Bud Shootout will be &#8220;more of an adventure&#8221; than in the past, says Dale Earnhardt Jr., the defending champion of the bonus race, and the consensus favorite to repeat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But leave it to Michael Waltrip, who is a sort of savant in restrictor-plate racing, to ask a rhetorical question and then answer in the superlative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure this question is obvious: Is the Shootout maybe the most anticipated race ever? And I&#8217;d say yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Never before have drivers gone into this inherently wild&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/nascar\/cup\/columns\/story?columnist=hinton_ed&amp;id=3888968\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night&#8217;s Bud Shootout will be &#8220;more of an adventure&#8221; than in the past, says Dale Earnhardt Jr., the defending champion of the bonus race, and the consensus favorite to repeat. But leave it to Michael Waltrip, who is a sort of savant in restrictor-plate racing, to ask a rhetorical question and then answer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","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\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}