{"id":74103,"date":"2020-07-21T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=74103"},"modified":"2020-07-21T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:30:27","slug":"holley-nhra-hot-rod-reunion-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/holley-nhra-hot-rod-reunion-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Holley NHRA Hot Rod Reunion Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"74104\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/holley-nhra-hot-rod-reunion-cancelled\/reunion\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reunion-e1595374138744.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" 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=\"reunion\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reunion-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reunion-e1595374138744.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74104 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reunion-e1595374138744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum officials announced today the cancellation of the 2020 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Ky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made this difficult decision as we see the effects this pandemic is having on our country, fans, sponsors, and racers,\u201d said museum executive director Martin Betz. \u201cWe believe this is the right decision given the escalation of COVID-19 cases in the state of Kentucky and the restrictions implemented by the state and Warren County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 17 years, Beech Bend Raceway has hosted the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion,\u201d said Dallas Jones track owner. \u201cAs much as we didn\u2019t want to cancel this popular event, the health and safety of our fans, participants, and staff is our number one priority during these difficult times. We look forward to a bigger and better event in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Event participants and ticket holders will receive more information from the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum via mail soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance is a production of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and cultural organization. Ticket sales, racer entries, merchandise sales, memberships, and donations go directly to helping the Museum preserve the past and inspiring the youth of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum officials announced today the cancellation of the 2020 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Ky.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":74104,"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":[3470,22],"tags":[7944,7567,2,41,7,7580],"class_list":["post-74103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-cancellations","tag-covid-19","tag-drag-racing","tag-news","tag-nhra","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/reunion-e1595374138744.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-jhd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74103","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=74103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74105,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74103\/revisions\/74105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}