{"id":22897,"date":"2019-11-20T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22897"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:22:32","slug":"jim-france-releases-statement-on-johnson-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/20\/jim-france-releases-statement-on-johnson-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim France releases statement on Johnson retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6483.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22895\" width=\"364\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6483.jpg 364w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6483-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NASCAR history will always hold Jimmie Johnson in the highest regard, for his hard-charging success on the racetrack and the way he conducted himself as a champion off the track. This remarkable seven-time champion \u2013 through his competitive spirit, immense talent and sportsmanship \u2013 has made NASCAR a better sport. On behalf of my family and the entire NASCAR community, I thank Jimmie for his dedication to NASCAR and, along with his legions of fans, wish him all the best in his final season. I look forward to watching him race for wins and an eighth NASCAR Cup Championship in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jim France, NASCAR Chairman and CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;NASCAR history will always hold Jimmie Johnson in the highest regard, for his hard-charging success on the racetrack and the way he conducted himself as a champion off the track. This remarkable seven-time champion \u2013 through his competitive spirit, immense talent and sportsmanship \u2013 has made NASCAR a better sport. On behalf of my family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,1168,315,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22897","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-jim-france","12":"tag-jimmie-johnson","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897","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=22897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22897"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}