{"id":2065,"date":"2020-02-18T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:25:32","slug":"drivers-stop-your-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Drivers: Stop your engines!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crash-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crash-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crash-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crash.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>NBC news photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Trump went to the Daytona 500 as the official race starter yesterday. As president, I wouldn&#8217;t do that. In fact, I&#8217;d try to dissuade motor car racing altogether. Ryan Newman is in serious condition after this crash (NBC News photo above) &#8212; 19  years to the day after a Dale Earnhardt Sr. crash, also on the last lap here, killed him. Earnhardt had a family.\u00a0 Newman has a wife and two children. These drivers, at these high speeds, spin around a track &#8212; metaphorically (and literally) similar to  spinning the gun chamber in a Russian Roulette game. \u00a0 And we all, the fans, are voyeurs fueling (tragic pun intended) it all.\u00a0 It&#8217;s suicide, not sport. And for what redeeming reason(s)?\u00a0 Testing, say, oil viscosity at 210 mph?\u00a0 How ridiculous.\u00a0 And how sinful.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump went to the Daytona 500 as the official race starter yesterday. As president, I wouldn&#8217;t do that. In fact, I&#8217;d try to dissuade motor car racing altogether. Ryan Newman is in serious condition after this crash (NBC News photo <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2065\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}