{"id":73636,"date":"2020-06-25T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=73636"},"modified":"2020-06-25T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:57:15","slug":"elko-speedway-to-host-racing-against-racism-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/elko-speedway-to-host-racing-against-racism-july-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Elko Speedway to Host &#8220;Racing Against Racism&#8221; July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"73637\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/elko-speedway-to-host-racing-against-racism-july-4\/0623elkospeedway_0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623ElkoSpeedway_0-e1593111277294.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,343\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0623ElkoSpeedway_0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623ElkoSpeedway_0-300x161.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623ElkoSpeedway_0-e1593111277294.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623ElkoSpeedway_0-e1593111277294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elko Speedway will be kicking off their season on July 4th with a special event called \u201cRacing Against Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elko Speedway, the 3\/8-mile asphalt oval in Elko New Market, Minnesota,\u00a0will feature on-track competition, fireworks, live entertainment, and a discussion about timely and current events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to start our season in such a unique manner at an important time in our lives,\u201d Elko Speedway Owner Tom Ryan said. \u201cAt this crossroads in our society, we can choose to either ignore issues or address them. Elko Speedway, in a small way, will take advantage of this opportunity to address these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speedway officials have implemented guidelines and policies to ensure its employees take precautions to protect their well-being and the safety of spectators, drivers, and crews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Elko Speedway will be kicking off their season on July 4th with a special event called \u201cRacing Against Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":73637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,5029,22],"tags":[7896,7894,7898,41,7897,7895],"class_list":["post-73636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-racing","category-event-coverage","tag-3-8-mile","tag-elko-speedway","tag-july-4th","tag-news","tag-racing-against-racism","tag-racing-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623ElkoSpeedway_0-e1593111277294.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-j9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73638,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73636\/revisions\/73638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}