{"id":5700,"date":"2013-01-24T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2013-01-24T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T17:01:28","slug":"smithfield-foods-to-sponsor-rpm-43-in-25-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/01\/24\/smithfield-foods-to-sponsor-rpm-43-in-25-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithfield Foods to sponsor RPM 43 in 25 races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5289\" alt=\"almirola1\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/12\/almirola1.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/12\/almirola1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/12\/almirola1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smithfield Foods will expand their venture into NASCAR racing. The world&#8217;s largest pork processor and hotdog producer will sponsor the No. 43 car driven by Aric Almirola for 25 events in 2013.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I had a great time working with Smithfield and its companies last season,&#8221; Almirola commented. &#8220;Together, we gave back to the community through Smithfield&#8217;s initiative Helping Hungry Homes, Eckrich&#8217;s Operation Homefront and to Harvesters Food Bank with Farmland Foods among others. It has been a privilege to work with a company that focuses on giving back. Not to mention, their quality products.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Smithfield Foods and its family of brands including Eckrich, Farmland, Gwaltney and Smithfield will all participate as primary sponsors throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The first race for Smithfield will be the 55th running of the Daytona 500 on February 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithfield Foods will expand their venture into NASCAR racing. The world&#8217;s largest pork processor and hotdog producer will sponsor the No. 43 car driven by Aric Almirola for 25 events in 2013. &#8220;I had a great time working with Smithfield and its companies last season,&#8221; Almirola commented. &#8220;Together, we gave back to the community through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[46],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-5700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-aric-almirola"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","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=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}