{"id":2231,"date":"2012-07-20T22:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2012-07-20T22:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T02:09:15","slug":"gordon-nascar-nationwide-team-to-honor-colorado-shooting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/07\/20\/gordon-nascar-nationwide-team-to-honor-colorado-shooting-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon NASCAR Nationwide team to honor Colorado shooting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #24 car driven by Benny Gordon will honor the victims of the Aurora Colorado theater shooting. The SR\u00b2 Motorsports entry will have a purple and white ribbon on the car with the words &#8220;Remember Aurora Colorado&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Benny+Gordon+Texas+Motor+Speedway+Day+2+i9lJgeX7gOfl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" \/>The following message was posted on the teams Facebook page.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immediate Press Release: Mooresville, NC , July 20, 2012, Due to the horrific events that took place today, July 20, 2012, in Aurora Colorado theater shooting, SR\u00b2 Motorsports has asked their sponsors to allow them to dedicate their No.24 car to remember all the victims.<br \/>\nSunday July 22, 2012 at Chicagoland Speedway, Benny Gordon will pilot SR\u00b2 Motorsports No.24, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series STP 300. \u201cRemember Aurora Colorado\u201d with a purple and white ribbon will adorn SR\u00b2 Motorsports No.24 Chevy Impala.<br \/>\nSR\u00b2 Motorsports and their sponsors, West Virginia Miners, Horizon Entertainment and Industrial Timber , would like to send their thoughts and prayers to all the victims and the victim\u2019s family members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The teams facebook page can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SR2Motorsports\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: (April 12, 2012 &#8211; Source: Tyler Barrick\/Getty Images North America)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #24 car driven by Benny Gordon will honor the victims of the Aurora Colorado theater shooting. The SR\u00b2 Motorsports entry will have a purple and white ribbon on the car with the words &#8220;Remember Aurora Colorado&#8221; on it. The following message was posted on the teams Facebook page. Immediate Press Release: Mooresville, NC , [&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":[64,586],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-benny-gordon","8":"tag-sr2-motorsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}