{"id":50917,"date":"2018-04-24T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=50917"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:48:33","slug":"this-week-in-motorsports-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-135\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50918\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-135\/32-winner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/32-winner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,426\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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