{"id":9116,"date":"2009-04-14T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2009-04-14T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T21:29:11","slug":"automobile-nascar-dei-cheapening-earnhardt%e2%80%99s-legacy-with-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9116","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; DEI cheapening Earnhardt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy with actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dale Earnhardt is Tweeting from the grave. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to say those words have never before been strung together in the history of, well, human language, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more remarkable is how Earnhardt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy is being turned into a carnival show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tweeting under the user name daleday09, someone at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. typed (below a picture of Earnhardt clad in sunglasses), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just reviewed plans for the April 29 birthday celebration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the cake is looking great!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Really? So what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re telling us about the upcoming event is that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already started baking a cake for a birthday party that won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take place for another two weeks?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To catch a glimpse of why DEI is swirling down the crapper, and in the process dirtying the legend of the late Dale Earnhardt, one needs to do little more than look at&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=jh-earnhardt041409&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Earnhardt is Tweeting from the grave. Sort of. While it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to say those words have never before been strung together in the history of, well, human language, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more remarkable is how Earnhardt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy is being turned into a carnival show. Tweeting under the user name daleday09, someone at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. typed [&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-9116","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\/9116","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=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}