{"id":17475,"date":"2016-02-03T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2016-02-03T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:22:39","slug":"tony-stewart-hospitalized-after-atv-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2016\/02\/03\/tony-stewart-hospitalized-after-atv-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stewart hospitalized after ATV injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/02\/tonystewart.jpg\" alt=\"tonystewart\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/02\/tonystewart.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/02\/tonystewart-594x396.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/02\/tonystewart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nNASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart is in the hospital following an ATV accident on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time series champion flipped a sand buggy outside of San Diego and had to be airlifted to an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A team spokesman told The Associated Press that Stewart was injured in a non-racing accident on Sunday. He is being evaluated in an undisclosed hospital and able to move all extremities.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was given and spokesman Mike Arning indicated Stewart&#8217;s condition will not be updated again until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have received word from Stewart-Haas Racing of Tony Stewart&#8217;s accident and injury,&#8221; NASCAR chairman Brian France said. &#8220;On behalf of everyone at NASCAR, I wish Tony a full recovery and look forward to seeing him back in our sport when he&#8217;s ready to return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart will turn 45 later this year and will retire from NASCAR racing at the end of this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart is in the hospital following an ATV accident on Tuesday. The three-time series champion flipped a sand buggy outside of San Diego and had to be airlifted to an area hospital. A team spokesman told The Associated Press that Stewart was injured in a non-racing accident on Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708,637],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17475","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","12":"tag-tony-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475","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=17475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}