{"id":2896,"date":"2012-08-15T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:03:45","slug":"eckrich-honors-military-with-aric-almirola-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/08\/15\/eckrich-honors-military-with-aric-almirola-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckrich honors military with Aric Almirola this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford will once again feature the colors of Eckrich on their car this weekend at Michigan. They last had there colors at Indianapolis Motor speedway in July. <a title=\"Richard Petty Motorsports and Aric Almirola honor military families with sponsor Eckrich\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/2012\/07\/27\/richard-petty-motorsports-and-aric-almirola-honor-military-families-with-sponsor-eckrich\/\">(Read about it here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/43eckrick-mrn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2897\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/43eckrick-mrn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>As Eckrich continues to honor military families, the No.43 Ford will again carry a splash of red-white-and-blue by featuring the star-spangled logo of Operation Homefront, a national non-profit organization that provides emergency financial assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Eckrich, part of the John Morrell Food Group, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, has partnered with Operation Homefront to support military families.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already donated $200,000 to Operation Homefront through the contribution of five cents from each purchase of specially marked products from May 1 through July 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford will once again feature the colors of Eckrich on their car this weekend at Michigan. They last had there colors at Indianapolis Motor speedway in July. (Read about it here) As Eckrich continues to honor military families, the No.43 Ford will again carry a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[46,441],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aric-almirola","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}