{"id":14724,"date":"2014-09-01T00:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T04:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2014-09-01T00:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T04:38:53","slug":"squirrel-runs-onto-track-at-atlanta-dodges-kevin-harvicks-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/09\/01\/squirrel-runs-onto-track-at-atlanta-dodges-kevin-harvicks-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel runs onto track at Atlanta, dodges Kevin Harvick&#8217;s car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"squirrel\" width=\"505\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/squirrel.jpg 505w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/squirrel-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick nearly hit a squirrel during Sunday&#8217;s running of the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>While leading the race, Harvick radioed to his crew that he nearly hit a cat. It was not a cat but rather a squirrel that avoided being hit by the No. 4 Jimmy Johns Chevrolet driven by Harvick. The squirrel later sat in the grass just off the track and enjoyed some of the action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/OBwx3ej2A6Y\/embed\/simple\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async src=\"\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately the squirrel was more fortunate than the <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/06\/08\/stephen-leicht-hits-groundhog-at-pocono-video\/\">Pocono groundhog<\/a> from two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Harvick would see his race go sour later on when he ran into the back of Paul Menard who was unable to get going on a late restart. Kasey Kahne would win the Oral-B USA 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Harvick nearly hit a squirrel during Sunday&#8217;s running of the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta. While leading the race, Harvick radioed to his crew that he nearly hit a cat. It was not a cat but rather a squirrel that avoided being hit by the No. 4 Jimmy Johns Chevrolet driven by Harvick. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-14724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","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=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}