{"id":71858,"date":"2012-11-05T07:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71858"},"modified":"2012-11-05T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:26:39","slug":"nascar-danica-patrick-makes-strides-with-24th-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=71858","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Danica Patrick makes strides with 24th-place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Danica Patrick wants a crew chief, she says, that believes in her, supports her and provides a foundation for trust. Fast race cars are a prerequisite, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And, she said Friday at Texas Motor Speedway, working with old-school racers and self-described &#8220;rednecks&#8221; seems to suit her well. Tony Gibson, a homespun character with a technical acumen that helped him win three Sprint Cup titles as a car chief, might suit her very well, indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One race into their tenure together, Patrick and Gibson seem to be\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/more-sports\/8594327\/espnw-danica-patrick-finishes-24th-makes-strides\" 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>Danica Patrick wants a crew chief, she says, that believes in her, supports her and provides a foundation for trust. Fast race cars are a prerequisite, too. And, she said Friday at Texas Motor Speedway, working with old-school racers and self-described &#8220;rednecks&#8221; seems to suit her well. Tony Gibson, a homespun character with a technical [&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-71858","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\/71858","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=71858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71859,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858\/revisions\/71859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}