{"id":53279,"date":"2014-08-28T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53279"},"modified":"2014-08-28T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:59:32","slug":"stewart-to-race-sund-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53279","title":{"rendered":"Stewart to race in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ward-Stewart1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52079\" alt=\"Ward Stewart1\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ward-Stewart1-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ward-Stewart1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ward-Stewart1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ward-Stewart1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By JENNA FRYER<br \/>\n\u00a0AP Auto Racing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Tony Stewart will return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus after his car struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The three-time NASCAR champion has not raced since Aug. 9, when he hit Kevin Ward Jr. at a sprint car event in upstate New York.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stewart hastily pulled out of the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen the next morning, then skipped races at Michigan and Bristol Motor Speedway.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stewart has been in seclusion since Ward&#8217;s death. He returns to his No. 14 Chevrolet at Atlanta ranked 26th in the Sprint Cup standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JENNA FRYER \u00a0AP Auto Racing Writer Tony Stewart will return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus after his car struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The three-time NASCAR champion has not raced since Aug. 9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53282,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53279\/revisions\/53282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}