{"id":975,"date":"2010-10-18T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2010-10-18T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:21:07","slug":"still-no-real-contender-to-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/10\/18\/still-no-real-contender-to-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no real contender to Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin kept the #48 of Jimmie Johnson in his sights Saturday night but by doing so further fell behind the 4-time Champion in this years points race.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin finished the race a respectable 4th but that was one spot behind the Chevrolet of Johnson who lengthened his points lead to 41.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch had a great run but even his second place finish only moved him to 177 points back of Johnson. Busch did however leap over 4 other drivers in the standings but its the points not the points position behind Johnson that will be too much for him to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>His brother Kurt saw his Championship hopes slip away with one spin and Jeff Gordon struggled with power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin kept the #48 of Jimmie Johnson in his sights Saturday night but by doing so further fell behind the 4-time Champion in this years points race. Hamlin finished the race a respectable 4th but that was one spot behind the Chevrolet of Johnson who lengthened his points lead to 41. Kyle Busch had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}