{"id":16,"date":"2007-08-04T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2007\/08\/dick-johnson-spreads-his-wings\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T00:46:39","slug":"dick-johnson-spreads-his-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2007\/08\/dick-johnson-spreads-his-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Johnson Spreads His Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Marcos Ambrose is currently making something of a name for himself in the NASCAR Busch Series. However, while he&#8217;s the first Australian to get a full time ride in any of the NASCAR series, he&#8217;s certainly not the first to have a go &#8220;stateside&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a7PxoDrOboE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Both Allan Grice and Dick Johnson dabbled on NASCAR front in the late 1980&#8217;s. Here&#8217;s a classic piece of footage of Dick from a Winston Cup race at Sears Point in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>I particular love Dick&#8217;s reaction in-car right at the end of the video, reacting to his realisation he&#8217;s about to have big shunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Marcos Ambrose is currently making something of a name for himself in the NASCAR Busch Series. However, while he&#8217;s the first Australian to get a full time ride in any of the NASCAR series, he&#8217;s certainly not the first to have a go &#8220;stateside&#8221;. Both Allan Grice and Dick Johnson dabbled on NASCAR front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}