{"id":13289,"date":"2014-05-16T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T03:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2014-05-16T23:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T03:06:54","slug":"tony-stewart-joins-twitter-makes-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/05\/16\/tony-stewart-joins-twitter-makes-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stewart joins twitter, makes joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13290\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13290\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/tonystewart.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/tonystewart.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/tonystewart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tony Stewart has finally joined Twitter. With Stewart joining the social media world the only major name left is Carl Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart sent out his first tweet on Friday night from Charlotte Motor Speedway. Stewart already has topped 215,000 followers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Ok so here it is. I&#8217;m doing my part to combat global warming because now that I&#8217;m officially tweeting, hell is freezing over!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Stewart (@TonyStewart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyStewart\/statuses\/467415820566806528\">May 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Previously Stewart had said his representatives were concerned about what he would post should he join Twitter. No word on what prompted Stewart to finally sign up. He already has the @TonyStewart handle and has been verified.<\/p>\n<p>One can only imagine what Stewart has in store for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the most recent big name driver to join Twitter, doing so after winning the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stewart has finally joined Twitter. With Stewart joining the social media world the only major name left is Carl Edwards. Stewart sent out his first tweet on Friday night from Charlotte Motor Speedway. Stewart already has topped 215,000 followers. Ok so here it is. I&#8217;m doing my part to combat global warming because now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[708,637],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-13289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-tony-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}