{"id":10999,"date":"2013-11-21T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10999"},"modified":"2013-11-21T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T13:38:32","slug":"kevin-harvick-takes-shot-at-donovan-mcnabb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/11\/21\/kevin-harvick-takes-shot-at-donovan-mcnabb\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick takes shot at Donovan McNabb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11000\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/kevinharvick.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/kevinharvick.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/kevinharvick-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn the past week the debate as to whether or not NASCAR drivers are athletes has again taken center stage thanks to comments by Donovan McNabb.<\/p>\n<p>McNabb questioned if Jimmie Johnson was an athlete since he sat in a car for his sport. Still McNabb ranked Johnson as his third best athlete behind Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson attempted to put the issue behind him, Kevin Harvick took exception to McNabb&#8217;s comment in a way that only he could. Harvick poked fun at McNabb&#8217;s performance in Super Bowl 39.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cardio day in the gym today&#8230; Felt like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donovanjmcnabb\">@donovanjmcnabb<\/a> in the 4th quarter&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23sluggish&amp;src=hash\">#sluggish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Harvick (@KevinHarvick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinHarvick\/statuses\/403165184921186304\">November 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. and boom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week the debate as to whether or not NASCAR drivers are athletes has again taken center stage thanks to comments by Donovan McNabb. McNabb questioned if Jimmie Johnson was an athlete since he sat in a car for his sport. Still McNabb ranked Johnson as his third best athlete behind Tiger Woods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,365,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-10999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-kevin-harvick","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}