{"id":7098,"date":"2009-04-02T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:22:22","slug":"automobile-nascar-nascar-numerology-the-no-8-more-than-just-dale-earnhardt-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; NASCAR Numerology: The No. 8, more than just Dale Earnhardt Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latest installment from NASCAR: Aric Almirola is the latest driver to drive the No. 8 car in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition. As for who is the greatest, let the debate begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And believe it not, that debate does not begin and end with Dale Earnhardt Jr., his considerable success notwithstanding. Instead, a pretty convincing case can be made for Joe Weatherly being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when it comes to the No. 8\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Weatherly made 110 starts in the No. 8 between 1961-64, winning 20 times and capturing back-to-back NASCAR Sprint Cup championships&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.newsday.com\/sports\/autoracing\/blog\/2009\/04\/nascar_numerology_the_no_8_mor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3691248?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment from NASCAR: Aric Almirola is the latest driver to drive the No. 8 car in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition. As for who is the greatest, let the debate begin. And believe it not, that debate does not begin and end with Dale Earnhardt Jr., his considerable success notwithstanding. Instead, a pretty [&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-7098","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\/7098","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=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}