{"id":14714,"date":"2014-09-01T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14714"},"modified":"2014-09-01T00:05:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T04:05:47","slug":"matt-kenseth-clinches-chase-spot-with-second-place-run-at-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/09\/01\/matt-kenseth-clinches-chase-spot-with-second-place-run-at-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Kenseth clinches Chase spot with second place run at Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14715\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/mattkenseth.jpg\" alt=\"mattkenseth\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/mattkenseth.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/mattkenseth-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenseth was unable to hold off Kasey Kahne on Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway but the 2003 NASCAR Cup Series champion was able to clinch a spot in this years Chase with his second place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Kenseth will entered the Chase regardless of where he finishes next weekend at Richmond, a track which historically has not been kind to the 42-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>At Atlanta Kenseth would lead 53 laps but was running\u00a0 off the lead when a late caution came out. Kenseth and his crew opted to take two tires\u00a0but was unable to hold off Kahne who had gotten four fresh tires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Kenseth was unable to hold off Kasey Kahne on Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway but the 2003 NASCAR Cup Series champion was able to clinch a spot in this years Chase with his second place finish. Kenseth will entered the Chase regardless of where he finishes next weekend at Richmond, a track which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[417],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-14714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-matt-kenseth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14714","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=14714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14714"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}