{"id":24210,"date":"2020-06-14T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=24210"},"modified":"2020-06-14T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T15:41:07","slug":"austin-dillon-racing-after-wife-gives-birth-to-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/06\/14\/austin-dillon-racing-after-wife-gives-birth-to-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Dillon racing after wife gives birth to son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24211\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/06\/dillonfamily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/06\/dillonfamily.jpg 476w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/06\/dillonfamily-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/06\/dillonfamily-335x418.jpg 335w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/06\/dillonfamily-337x420.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Austin Dillon will be behind the wheel of the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro on Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway after wife Whitney gave birth to son Ace.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon shared a photo of Whitney and Ace in a hospital bed writing, &#8220;Wow, @whitneydillon you amaze me everyday! This by far is your biggest feat yet. My love for you and @acedillon3 is Agape Love. Hardest thing I\u2019ve ever had to do was say goodbye to go race today. Hopefully we bring back a trophy for Ace on the first day we welcomed him into this world!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Faustindillon3%2Fphotos%2Fa.124410357592343%2F3266091136757567%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"670\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There had been questions as to whether or not Dillon would miss a race with the upcoming birth but Sunday&#8217;s post clarifies that he will indeed be racing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/06\/12\/hamlin-on-homestead-pole-dixie-vodka-400-starting-lineup\/\">Dixie Vodka 400<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon has been on a bit of a hot stretch since NASCAR&#8217;s return. He has finished 14th, eighth, sixth and 11th prior to having to be removed from his car last weekend at Martinsville following heat exhaustion. He finished 37th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Dillon will be behind the wheel of the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro on Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway after wife Whitney gave birth to son Ace. Dillon shared a photo of Whitney and Ace in a hospital bed writing, &#8220;Wow, @whitneydillon you amaze me everyday! This by far is your biggest feat yet. My love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[54,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-24210","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-austin-dillon","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24210","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=24210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}