{"id":5974,"date":"2013-02-08T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2013-02-08T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:12:14","slug":"daytona-500-grand-marshal-announced-james-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/02\/08\/daytona-500-grand-marshal-announced-james-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytona 500 grand marshal announced &#8211; James Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5976\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5976\" alt=\"daytona\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/daytona.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/daytona.jpg 650w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/daytona-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5975\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5975 \" alt=\"franco\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/franco.jpeg\" width=\"293\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/franco.jpeg 550w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/franco-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Disney\/Oz the Great and Powerful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Grand Marshal for the 55th running of the Daytona 500 will be\u00a0Academy Award nominee for Best Actor (127 Hours), James Franco.<\/p>\n<p>Franco will be promoting his new Disney movie, &#8220;<i>Oz The Great And Powerful&#8221;<\/i>, which hits theaters March 8.<\/p>\n<p>Through his role, Franco will give the command, \u201cdrivers start your engines.&#8221; He will also be introduced at the drivers&#8217; meeting, participate in pre-race ceremonies and ride in one of the grand marshal cars during the pace laps prior to the green flag of the 200-lap, 500-mile race.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Franco&#8217;s film credits include: \u201cSpider-Man\u201d trilogy, \u201cPineapple Express\u201d &#8220;Milk&#8221;, and \u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s Daytona grand marshal&#8217;s were Kate Upton and Jane Lynch. The 500 had not seen a &#8220;big time&#8221; actor since 2007 when Nicolas Cage was present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Marshal for the 55th running of the Daytona 500 will be\u00a0Academy Award nominee for Best Actor (127 Hours), James Franco. Franco will be promoting his new Disney movie, &#8220;Oz The Great And Powerful&#8221;, which hits theaters March 8. Through his role, Franco will give the command, \u201cdrivers start your engines.&#8221; He will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[717],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-5974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-daytona2013"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","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=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}