{"id":59,"date":"2005-05-17T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-05-17T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T23:24:35","slug":"stock-car-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/stock-car-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Car Racing?&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are there any NASCAR fans out there?&#8230;.Well, you probably won&#8217;t appreciate what I have to say, but at least hear me out&#8230;&#8230;  Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I used to be a BIG NASCAR fan years ago&#8230;.  But now, I get tired of watching a bunch of different colored melted &#8220;twinkes&#8221; goin&#8217; &#8217;round and &#8217;round in a circle&#8230;.  Except for the colors and numbers they all look alike&#8230;..  Just makes you want to watch them smash into the wall and\/or each other&#8230;. And the rules have always been slanted to certain manufacturers and cars (More on this later if I get any comments on this post.)&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Stock&#8221; in NASCAR went out in the &#8217;70&#8217;s&#8230;.  NASCAR is an abbreviation for &#8220;National Association of Stock Car Automobile Racing&#8221; or something there-abouts&#8230;.  Well, as far as I&#8217;m concerned today it stands for &#8220;No Actual Stock Cars Are Racing&#8221;&#8230;.  Go to your local dealership and see if you can find and\/or purchase anything that remotely resembles what you see on a NASCAR track&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re a REAL NASCAR fan, you should be able to answer this question:  I saw Richard Petty race at the height of his career&#8230;..  Where did I see him race?&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pit Stop clock is running&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there any NASCAR fans out there?&#8230;.Well, you probably won&#8217;t appreciate what I have to say, but at least hear me out&#8230;&#8230; Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I used to be a BIG NASCAR fan years ago&#8230;. But now, I get tired of watching a bunch of different colored melted &#8220;twinkes&#8221; goin&#8217; &#8217;round and &#8217;round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}