{"id":16511,"date":"2015-07-02T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16511"},"modified":"2015-07-02T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:02:56","slug":"all-nascar-tracks-ask-fans-to-not-bring-confederate-flag-to-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/07\/02\/all-nascar-tracks-ask-fans-to-not-bring-confederate-flag-to-races\/","title":{"rendered":"All NASCAR tracks ask fans to not bring Confederate flag to races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/nascarflagconfederate.jpg\" alt=\"nascarflagconfederate\" width=\"960\" height=\"632\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/nascarflagconfederate.jpg 960w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/nascarflagconfederate-594x391.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/nascarflagconfederate-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nThis weekend at Daytona International Speedway fans can turn in their Confederate flags for a flag of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Daytona who does not want the Confederate flag flown at its televised races this weekend, all of the tracks on the NASCAR schedule have jointly signed a statement in which it proclaims a desire to be &#8220;welcoming environments in all of sports and entertainment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Chairman Brian France has called the flag a symbol he personally finds offensive and said he wants to be as aggressive as possible in barring it from sanctioned events. NASCAR&#8217;s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., has already stated that he <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/06\/26\/dale-earnhardt-jr-backs-nascars-ban-on-confederate-flag\/\">finds the flag offensive<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend at Daytona International Speedway fans can turn in their Confederate flags for a flag of the United States. It&#8217;s not just Daytona who does not want the Confederate flag flown at its televised races this weekend, all of the tracks on the NASCAR schedule have jointly signed a statement in which it proclaims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511","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=16511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}