{"id":76301,"date":"2013-03-07T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76301"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:46:03","slug":"nra-has-every-right-to-sponsor-a-nascar-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76301","title":{"rendered":"NRA Has Every Right to Sponsor a NASCAR Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When It Comes Down to It, It&#8217;s All About Freedom of Speech<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The debate over the National Rifle Association &#8212; which has been in the news since last December&#8217;s Sandy Hook tragedy &#8212; has made its way to NASCAR, as the NRA announced that it will be the sponsor of this April&#8217;s race at Texas Motor Speedway. The NRA 500 will no doubt be a lightning rod of controversy, prompting boycotts from the group&#8217;s opponents and cheers from others who support the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The question being asked by everyone right now: &#8220;Did NASCAR and Texas Motor Speedway make the right move in allowing this sponsorship deal?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/nra-every-sponsor-nascar-race-171200611--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>When It Comes Down to It, It&#8217;s All About Freedom of Speech The debate over the National Rifle Association &#8212; which has been in the news since last December&#8217;s Sandy Hook tragedy &#8212; has made its way to NASCAR, as the NRA announced that it will be the sponsor of this April&#8217;s race at Texas [&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-76301","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\/76301","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=76301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76303,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301\/revisions\/76303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}