{"id":450223,"date":"2017-03-22T10:27:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=450223"},"modified":"2017-03-22T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:27:31","slug":"matt-tifft-from-brain-tumor-survivor-to-up-and-coming-nascar-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=450223","title":{"rendered":"Matt Tifft: From brain tumor survivor to up-and-coming NASCAR star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nascar\/nationwide\/audio\/16599739\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/racing\/nascar\/2\/2017\/03\/22\/16599739\/cloud-pic-of-matt.2-uid14901918369505-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Tifft\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Matt Tifft, driver for the No. 19 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR XFinity Series, joins the Sports Shop to discuss the start to his first full-time season as a NASCAR driver for one of the sport&#8217;s top teams at age 20. Tifft also shares his story of how he had a brain tumor removed in July last year and his remarkable recovery and return to racing two months later. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nascar\/nationwide\/audio\/16599739\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nascar\/nationwide\/audio\/16599739\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Matt Tifft: From brain tumor survivor to up-and-coming NASCAR star\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Tifft, driver for the No. 19 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR XFinity Series, joins the Sports Shop to discuss the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450223","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\/450223","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=450223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}