{"id":1410,"date":"2009-04-05T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/05\/finally-gordon-takes-a-checkered-flag\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:08:15","slug":"finally-gordon-takes-a-checkered-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/05\/finally-gordon-takes-a-checkered-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally!  Gordon takes a checkered flag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his victory today in Texas, Jeff Gordon finally ended a winless streak that dated all the way back to October 2007.  Good grief, 47 races, and the kicker was that he had never won at Texas Motor Speedway in 16 previous tries, until today.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon heads into the Easter weekend off week with 162 points in hand over second place Jimmie Johnson.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>With his victory today in Texas, Jeff Gordon finally ended a winless streak that dated all the way back to October 2007. Good grief, 47 races, and the kicker was that he had never won at Texas Motor Speedway in 16 previous tries, until today. Gordon heads into the Easter weekend off week with 162 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/04\/05\/finally-gordon-takes-a-checkered-flag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally!  Gordon takes a checkered flag!<\/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=\"https:\/\/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-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}