{"id":34304,"date":"2015-08-10T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=34304"},"modified":"2015-08-10T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:20:44","slug":"buddy-baker-nascars-gentle-giant-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=34304","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Baker, NASCAR&#8217;s &#8216;Gentle Giant,&#8217; dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left;\"><a  class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/buddy-baker-nascar-s-gentle-giant-dies-at-74-of-cancer\/14821014\/\" ><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/racing\/nascar\/2015\/08\/10\/14821014\/14821266-1439219972-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR Obit Baker Auto Racing\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Buddy Baker, who won the 1980 Daytona 500 and at 6-foot-6 was NASCAR&#8217;s &#8220;Gentle Giant,&#8221; died Monday. He was 74. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/buddy-baker-nascar-s-gentle-giant-dies-at-74-of-cancer\/14821014\/\" class=\"colorbox\"  id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/buddy-baker-nascar-s-gentle-giant-dies-at-74-of-cancer\/14821014\/  class=\"colorbox\"  title=\"Buddy Baker, NASCAR's 'Gentle Giant,' dies at 74\" >WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddy Baker, who won the 1980 Daytona 500 and at 6-foot-6 was NASCAR&#8217;s &#8220;Gentle Giant,&#8221; died Monday. He was 74. &#8230;read more Source:: WRAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}