{"id":8412,"date":"2009-04-09T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2009-04-09T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T02:37:08","slug":"automobile-nascar-time-to-put-the-sprint-back-in-nascars-sprint-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8412","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Time to put the sprint back in NASCAR&#8217;s Sprint Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics are trying to figure out why NASCAR ratings are down 15 percent from last season. The biggest drop in viewership since the sport&#8217;s gargantuan TV contract in 2001 is significant enough to raise eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t despair, race fans. I&#8217;ve figured out the crux of the problem. And to think, it all boils down to one lesson:<\/p>\n<p><em>Without risk, there is no reward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sounds so simple &#8230; and it is. Racing has always had a&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/tom_bowles\/04\/09\/Bowles\/?eref=sircrc\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics are trying to figure out why NASCAR ratings are down 15 percent from last season. The biggest drop in viewership since the sport&#8217;s gargantuan TV contract in 2001 is significant enough to raise eyebrows. But don&#8217;t despair, race fans. I&#8217;ve figured out the crux of the problem. And to think, it all boils down [&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-8412","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\/8412","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=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}