{"id":78082,"date":"2021-02-24T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=78082"},"modified":"2021-02-24T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:46:32","slug":"urgent-impacted-racetracks-need-your-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/urgent-impacted-racetracks-need-your-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent: Impacted Racetracks Need Your Support!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"78083\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/urgent-impacted-racetracks-need-your-support\/unnamed-176\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed.png\" data-orig-size=\"512,284\" 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=\"unnamed\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed-300x166.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed.png 512w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The SEMA Action Network is calling on all gear heads to ban together and fight for our racetracks.<br \/>\nCongress recently created a $15 billion grant program to assist live entertainment and performing arts venues that have been adversely impacted by COVID shutdown orders and occupancy restrictions. Unfortunately, racetracks are not eligible to apply for grants through the &#8220;Shuttered Venue Operators Grants (SVOG)&#8221; program.<\/p>\n<p>SEMA has formed a coalition in partnership with other groups that were left out of the SVOG program to advocate for Congress to create a grant program for recreation, sports, and amusement live venues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/SEMA\/campaigns\/81209\/respond\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">To learn how you can help click HERE.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The SEMA Action Network is calling on all gear heads to ban together and fight for our racetracks.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":78083,"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":[1082,3470,5029],"tags":[41,8335,156,2336],"class_list":["post-78082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-racing","tag-news","tag-racetracks","tag-sema","tag-sema-action-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/unnamed.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-kjo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78082","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=78082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78087,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78082\/revisions\/78087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}