{"id":4058,"date":"2013-09-22T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2013-09-22T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T20:31:51","slug":"commonsense-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2013\/09\/22\/commonsense-prevails\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonsense Prevails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt I will be pulling some NAPA knowhow anytime soon, but I sure do respect NAPA for taking a stance (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/waltrip-loses-sponsor-over-scandal\/article\/312355\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.racer.com\/waltrip-loses-sponsor-over-scandal\/article\/312355', 'it\u2019s always about the money');\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s always about the money<\/a>) on the shenanigans pulled by Michael Waltrip racing at Richmond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A statement from sponsor NAPA on Thursday read: \u201cAfter thorough consideration, NAPA has made the difficult decision to end its sponsorship arrangement with Michael Waltrip Racing effective December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAPA believes in fair play and does not condone actions such as those that led to the penalties assessed by NASCAR. We remain supportive of the millions of NASCAR fans and will evaluate our future position in motorsports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team co-owner Michael Waltrip insisted that his team was not immoral following the penalties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep on believing that Michael Waltrip \u2026 it doesn\u2019t change the fact that your team was caught cheating, and trying to screw over Jeff Gordon, which was not really appreciated by Gordon\u2019s fans.<\/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 doubt I will be pulling some NAPA knowhow anytime soon, but I sure do respect NAPA for taking a stance (it\u2019s always about the money) on the shenanigans pulled by Michael Waltrip racing at Richmond. A statement from sponsor NAPA on Thursday read: \u201cAfter thorough consideration, NAPA has made the difficult decision to end &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2013\/09\/22\/commonsense-prevails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commonsense Prevails<\/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":[19],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}