{"id":42795,"date":"2017-08-11T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=42795"},"modified":"2017-08-11T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:19:30","slug":"larson-will-race-at-knoxville-nats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/larson-will-race-at-knoxville-nats\/","title":{"rendered":"Larson Will Race at Knoxville Nats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42796\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/larson-will-race-at-knoxville-nats\/unnamed-2-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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at Knoxville for the 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