{"id":3695,"date":"2011-09-16T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T23:26:16","slug":"dan-wheldon-%e2%80%93-my-new-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/09\/16\/dan-wheldon-%e2%80%93-my-new-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Wheldon \u2013 My New Best Friend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Wheldon will be my new best friend, but only if I win the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/wheldon-confirmed-for-las-vegas-5-million-challenge\/article\/211932\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.racer.com\/wheldon-confirmed-for-las-vegas-5-million-challenge\/article\/211932\/', 'Indy Las Vegas $5 Million Challenge');\" target=\"_blank\">Indy Las Vegas $5 Million Challenge<\/a> and of course Dan Wheldon brings home the checker flag.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a gimmick?  You bet, but who gives a rat\u2019s ass if you are the person cheering on Dan to bring you home some serious cash.  Even if I am not selected, I will probably make time to watch the race just to see if some other lucky bastard becomes independently wealthy.<\/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>Dan Wheldon will be my new best friend, but only if I win the Indy Las Vegas $5 Million Challenge and of course Dan Wheldon brings home the checker flag. Is this a gimmick? You bet, but who gives a rat\u2019s ass if you are the person cheering on Dan to bring you home some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/09\/16\/dan-wheldon-%e2%80%93-my-new-best-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dan Wheldon \u2013 My New Best Friend?<\/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":[45,32],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-irl","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}