{"id":8117,"date":"2015-04-27T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:57:47","slug":"bill-france-sr-legends-april-27-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/bill-france-sr-legends-april-27-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill France SR.<\/br>Legends April 27, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Legends_FRANCE_SR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Legends_FRANCE_SR-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Legends_FRANCE_SR\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Legends_FRANCE_SR-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Legends_FRANCE_SR.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced.<br \/>\nClick <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoctanelounge.com\">www.theoctanelounge.com<\/a>, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>As a teen growing up in Washington, D.C., Bill France Sr., known as the father of NASCAR, loved racing, often skipping school to watch races at a high-banked track in Laurel, Md.  Eventually, he owned a service station in Washington and then packed up his family and moved to a warmer climate in Florida.  His timing couldn&#8217;t of been better. In 1936, the city of Daytona Beach helped promote a stock-car race on its sandy shores and lost money doing it. . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a style=\"font-size: 1.5em; text-align: right;\" title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a teen growing up in Washington, D.C., Bill France Sr., known as the father of NASCAR, loved racing, often skipping school to watch races at a high-banked track in Laurel, Md.  Eventually, he owned a service station in Washington and then packed up his family and moved to a warmer climate in Florida.  His timing couldn&#8217;t of been better. In 1936, the city of Daytona Beach helped promote a stock-car race on its sandy shores and lost money doing it. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legends","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}