{"id":1927968,"date":"2026-08-14T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927968"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:03:57","slug":"christopher-bell-finds-the-bright-side-of-finishing-second-with-the-return-of-nascar-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927968","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Bell finds the bright side of finishing second with the return of NASCAR Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven second-place finishes this season have been \u201ca kick to the gut\u201d for Christopher Bell, but the Joe Gibbs Racing driver is ranked sixth in the points standings and a championship contender for the Chase. The 10-race title run puts an emphasis on points and strong results, and Bell is a threat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/752a3-christopher-bell-finds-the-bright-side-of-finishing-second-with-the-return-of-nascar-chase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven second-place finishes this season have been \u201ca kick to the gut\u201d for Christopher Bell, but the Joe Gibbs Racing driver is ranked sixth in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927969,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927968\/revisions\/1927969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}