{"id":17521,"date":"2016-02-17T22:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T03:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2016-02-17T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T03:28:48","slug":"aarons-extends-deal-with-michael-waltrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2016\/02\/17\/aarons-extends-deal-with-michael-waltrip\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron&#8217;s extends deal with Michael Waltrip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14274\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14274\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/michaelwaltrip.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/michaelwaltrip.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/michaelwaltrip-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael Waltrip Racing may be dead but that does not mean that Aaron&#8217;s will stop their NASCAR advertising. On Wednesday the company announced a new deal with longtime pitchman Waltrip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael epitomizes the energetic personality of\u00a0NASCAR\u00a0and with this new agreement, we\u2019ll be able to continue to support\u00a0NASCAR\u00a0and a fan base that has been an important audience for us over the past 16 years,\u201d said\u00a0Andrea Freeman,\u00a0Aaron\u2019s\u00a0Vice President of Marketing in a press release. \u201cTo be able to continue our long-standing relationship with Waltrip through his racing, a media campaign, appearances and engagement with fans makes this truly a special partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron&#8217;s will appear on Waltrip&#8217;s Daytona 500 car as well as his car for Talladega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Waltrip Racing may be dead but that does not mean that Aaron&#8217;s will stop their NASCAR advertising. On Wednesday the company announced a new deal with longtime pitchman Waltrip. \u201cMichael epitomizes the energetic personality of\u00a0NASCAR\u00a0and with this new agreement, we\u2019ll be able to continue to support\u00a0NASCAR\u00a0and a fan base that has been an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,437,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-michael-waltrip","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","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=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}