{"id":912,"date":"2007-06-10T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/10\/more-sunday-racing\/"},"modified":"2007-06-10T20:19:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:19:56","slug":"more-sunday-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/10\/more-sunday-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sunday Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Gordon has to be one lucky son of a gun; that or Steve Letarte is a freaking genius.\u00a0 Maybe a little of both.\u00a0 Growing up, some of my baseball coaches used to say that \u201cI would rather be lucky than good\u201d \u2013 pretty much the situation at Pocono today.\u00a0 Gordon wins a rain shorten Pocono race and extends his points lead.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the NASCAR Pocono race, the CART race at Portland was not in HD, which is always disappointing.\u00a0 Once you start watching sporting events in HD, it is hard to go back.\u00a0 I watch the first five minutes of the race because I read in the paper this morning that this would be the first standing start in a CART race.\u00a0 Not sure what the big deal was, but figured I would check it out.\u00a0 There was something like 17 cars on the grid; seems to me that CART must be on its last leg if they can only pull 17 cars in a race.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend we get LeMans and the US Grand Prix.\u00a0 Glory halleluiah.\u00a0 Should make for a fun 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>Jeff Gordon has to be one lucky son of a gun; that or Steve Letarte is a freaking genius.\u00a0 Maybe a little of both.\u00a0 Growing up, some of my baseball coaches used to say that \u201cI would rather be lucky than good\u201d \u2013 pretty much the situation at Pocono today.\u00a0 Gordon wins a rain shorten &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/10\/more-sunday-racing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Sunday 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":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}