{"id":55349,"date":"2014-09-26T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55349"},"modified":"2014-09-26T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T14:03:55","slug":"stewart-100-percent-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55349","title":{"rendered":"Stewart 100% an accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52090\" alt=\"ward stewart2b\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) &#8211; Tony Stewart says the crash that killed 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. on a dirt track in upstate New York was &#8220;100 percent&#8221; an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday from his home in Huntersville, North Carolina. It was his first interview since a grand jury decided against charging the NASCAR star in Ward&#8217;s death. Stewart could still face a civil lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart says during his three-week hiatus from racing after the crash, he stayed in seclusion at his other home in Indiana and didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed or even leave his room. He asked for professional help to deal with his grief.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart said: &#8220;I know 100 percent in my heart and in my mind that I did not do anything wrong. This was 100 percent an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) &#8211; Tony Stewart says the crash that killed 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. on a dirt track in upstate New York was &#8220;100 percent&#8221; an accident. Stewart spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday from his home in Huntersville, North Carolina. It was his first interview since a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55352,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55349\/revisions\/55352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}