{"id":71157,"date":"2012-10-17T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71157"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:26:22","slug":"nascar-danica-patrick-continues-steep-learning-curve-in-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71157","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Danica Patrick continues steep learning curve in Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For as much as she&#8217;s tried to keep a positive outlook, Danica Patrick admitted her first full season of NASCAR education hasn&#8217;t been easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Oh, yeah. There&#8217;s only so much of it you can take before you start to get a little down,&#8221; Patrick told USA TODAY Sports at Kansas Speedway. &#8220;I recognize that I&#8217;m learning a lot and putting myself in difficult situations on purpose. I&#8217;m fortunate that the people around me are patient.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2012\/10\/17\/danica-patrick-continues-steep-learning-curve-in-sprint-cup\/1640121\/\" 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>For as much as she&#8217;s tried to keep a positive outlook, Danica Patrick admitted her first full season of NASCAR education hasn&#8217;t been easy. &#8220;Oh, yeah. There&#8217;s only so much of it you can take before you start to get a little down,&#8221; Patrick told USA TODAY Sports at Kansas Speedway. &#8220;I recognize that I&#8217;m [&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-71157","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\/71157","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=71157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71158,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71157\/revisions\/71158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}