{"id":409,"date":"2017-01-24T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=409"},"modified":"2017-01-24T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:06:44","slug":"30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/30-2\/","title":{"rendered":"@30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1997: I became a NASCAR fan, all because it was a quiet Sunday in February, with no football or baseball or hockey. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t a basketball or soccer fan at that time.<\/p>\n<p>I came across the Daytona 500 on CBS, and figured that this was as good a time as any to watch a race. \u00a0I never had in the past, I had only followed Indy Car racing on and off since I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>I picked the first and maybe only driver who had a web address on the back of his firesuit: www.jeffgordon.com<\/p>\n<p>He went on to win the race, and NASCAR and Jeff Gordon gained a new fan.<\/p>\n<p>2017: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/en_us\/news-media\/articles\/2017\/1\/23\/new-nascar-race-format-2017-announced.html\">new format for races<\/a> are, in my opinion, a joke. 3 stages per race, each with a &#8216;winner&#8217; and points assigned, with bonus points for playoff purposes for the winners.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has changed their format more times than I can remember, since the creation of the Chase for the Cup. \u00a0I don&#8217;t recall IndyCar or F1 changing as frequently or drastically, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gordon retired 2 years ago, at the end of the 2015 season. \u00a0I watched very few races in the past few seasons, and with both Gordon and Tony Stewart (retired last season) out of racing, along with the revamped points system I think I&#8217;m done with NASCAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1997: I became a NASCAR fan, all because it was a quiet Sunday in February, with no football or baseball or hockey. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t a basketball or soccer fan at that time. I came across the Daytona 500 on CBS, and figured that this was as good a time as any to watch a race. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/30-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;@30&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sports","tag-65"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}