{"id":1681,"date":"2012-02-24T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2012-02-24T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:13:18","slug":"rick-santorum-sponsoring-tony-raines-in-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/02\/24\/rick-santorum-sponsoring-tony-raines-in-daytona-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum sponsoring Tony Raines in Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Tony+Raines+Daytona+500+Speed+Week+Day+2+J2D3uMejqQNl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>According to Bob Pockrass, Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is putting his name on the car of Tony Raines for Sunday&#8217;s running of the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n<p>Raines is driving the #26 car for Front Row Motorsports. Raines is running the organizations third car which figures to be a part time team for much of the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum is hoping that his exposure to the NASCAR fan base will boost him in his contest with Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Raines had been the only car entered into the 54th running of the Daytona 500 which did not have sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>The 47 year old from LaPorte, Indiana, has made 162 starts at the Sprint Cup level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bob Pockrass, Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is putting his name on the car of Tony Raines for Sunday&#8217;s running of the Daytona 500. Raines is driving the #26 car for Front Row Motorsports. Raines is running the organizations third car which figures to be a part time team for much of the upcoming [&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":[539,635],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-rick-santorum","8":"tag-tony-raines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","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=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}