{"id":881391,"date":"2019-12-20T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=881391"},"modified":"2019-12-20T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T00:28:16","slug":"junior-johnson-the-last-american-hero-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=881391","title":{"rendered":"Junior Johnson, &#8220;The Last American Hero,&#8221; dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/junior-johnson-the-last-american-hero-dies-at-88\/18846308\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/racing\/nascar\/2019\/12\/20\/18846309\/5dfd61c5edddd-media_e028a1009e744cee82d6ffbce64c9d3b-DMID1-5l848g105-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR_Obit_Junior_Johnson_Auto_Racing_71478\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Robert Glenn \u201cJunior\u201d Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as \u201cThe Last American Hero\u201d by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire, died Friday. He was 88. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/junior-johnson-the-last-american-hero-dies-at-88\/18846308\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/junior-johnson-the-last-american-hero-dies-at-88\/18846308\/\" class=\"colorbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Glenn \u201cJunior\u201d Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as \u201cThe Last American Hero\u201d by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire,&#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-881391","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\/881391","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=881391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}