{"id":3457,"date":"2011-05-26T06:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2011-05-26T06:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:10:02","slug":"memorial-day-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/05\/26\/memorial-day-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love kicking off summer with the Monaco GP, Indy 500, and 600 laps of NASCAR; all in one Sunday of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/racing-on-tv-may-26-30\/article\/203648\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.racer.com\/racing-on-tv-may-26-30\/article\/203648\/', 'back-to-back-to-back racing action');\" target=\"_blank\">back-to-back-to-back racing action<\/a>.  I\u2019ll throw a Boston Butt Roast on the grill on Saturday, and grill a boatload of wings on Sunday between F1 and Indy racing action.  What could be better?<\/p>\n<p>How about having the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/raikkonen-tests-cup-car-at-virginia\/article\/203662\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.racer.com\/raikkonen-tests-cup-car-at-virginia\/article\/203662', 'Ice Man in NASCAR');\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Man in NASCAR<\/a>?  If Kimi Raikkonen does in fact enter and qualify for <a href=\"http:\/\/nationwide.nascar.com\/nationwide-series\/races\/2011\/entrylist\/13\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/nationwide.nascar.com\/nationwide-series\/races\/2011\/entrylist\/13', 'this weekend\u2019s Nationwide race');\" target=\"_blank\">this weekend\u2019s Nationwide race<\/a>, that will be another event to throw on the TV this weekend, in what has to be considered one of the greatest weekends in motorsports!<\/p>\n<p>Technically I already kicked off summer a couple of weeks ago with a lovely trip to the Gulf Coast (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&rlz=&q=carillon+beach,+fl&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8893f2666f9b2eb1:0xa8210846d779d7ee,Carillon+Beach,+Florida&gl=us&ei=_DLeTfaUB4e4tweW3JiLCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CE0Q8gEwAA\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;q=carillon+beach,+fl&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x8893f2666f9b2eb1:0xa8210846d779d7ee,Carillon+Beach,+Florida&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=_DLeTfaUB4e4tweW3JiLCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CE0Q8gEwAA', 'Carillon Beach, FL');\" target=\"_blank\">Carillon Beach, FL<\/a>), but we all know that summer \u2018officially\u2019 begins this weekend, with Memorial Day sitting in as the three day kicker.<\/p>\n<p>I would be remiss to not thank our military, their loved ones, and of course those that have sacrificed their lives in the name of this great country.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you and yours a very safe Memorial Day weekend!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love kicking off summer with the Monaco GP, Indy 500, and 600 laps of NASCAR; all in one Sunday of back-to-back-to-back racing action. I\u2019ll throw a Boston Butt Roast on the grill on Saturday, and grill a boatload of wings on Sunday between F1 and Indy racing action. What could be better? How about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/05\/26\/memorial-day-racing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial Day Racing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,45,19],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-f1","tag-irl","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}