{"id":5706,"date":"2013-01-24T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2013-01-24T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:01:45","slug":"sammy-gonzalez-loses-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/01\/24\/sammy-gonzalez-loses-battle-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Gonzalez loses battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5708 aligncenter\" alt=\"sammygonzalez\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez.jpg 320w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/01\/sammygonzalez-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Longtime NASCAR mechanic Sammy Gonzalez has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. Gonzalez most recently had worked for the No. 1 team of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Ron Hornaday had been close friends for years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>So so sad @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lindyhornaday\">lindyhornaday<\/a>: Today we lost a Great Great Man, Sammy n Heaven just received One Special Angel!! RIP my Friend I love you Sammy<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Hornaday (@RonHornaday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonHornaday\/status\/294539438661447680\">January 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hornaday drove the No. 9 truck with a special decal honoring his friend at the Michigan race in 2012. Other drivers around the Sprint Cup Series garage also carried the image on their cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rl0hm.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime NASCAR mechanic Sammy Gonzalez has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. Gonzalez most recently had worked for the No. 1 team of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing. Gonzalez and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Ron Hornaday had been close friends for years. So so sad @lindyhornaday: Today we lost a Great Great Man, Sammy n [&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":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-5706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","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=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}