{"id":1394,"date":"2011-10-27T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2011-10-27T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:20:28","slug":"martinsville-paints-curbs-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/10\/27\/martinsville-paints-curbs-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinsville paints curbs pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillespeedway.com\/~\/media\/397FADD633F44C9F9CB9C6C88D684908.ashx?w=325\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>The curbs of Martinsville can be added to the list of sport items gone pink as America celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month. About a week ago the track crew was joined by four ladies who helped paint the curbs pink.<\/p>\n<p>According to the tracks website<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The infamous Martinsville Speedway curbs have a new look.<\/p>\n<p>The unique four-inch high curbs guarding the inside of the turns at  Martinsville Speedway have drawn the anger of almost every driver who  has competed at this historic track.<\/p>\n<p>But for the TUMS Fast Relief 500 weekend, the curbs will show a  softer side. They have been painted pink in recognition of Breast Cancer  Awareness Month.&#8221;\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillespeedway.com\/Articles\/2011\/11\/pink-curbs.aspx\">Martinsville Speedway<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the curbs may be an annoyance to the drivers, I doubt anyone at home will see it negatively effect their race watching experience.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully no one has modified the infamous Martinsville hot dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curbs of Martinsville can be added to the list of sport items gone pink as America celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month. About a week ago the track crew was joined by four ladies who helped paint the curbs pink. According to the tracks website &#8220;The infamous Martinsville Speedway curbs have a new look. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[409],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-martinsville-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","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=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}