{"id":19,"date":"2007-01-07T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T02:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-01-07T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T02:10:41","slug":"bobby-hamilton-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/bobby-hamilton-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Hamilton, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/D:\/archives\/SpeedwaywebFP\/images\/Bobby_Hamilton_s.gif\" \/>Wow. I just surfed over to Jayski&#8217;s site a few minutes ago and was stunned to see that Bobby Hamilton had passed away.<\/p>\n<p>I think everyone had expected him to get better, but the cancer must have been worse than publicized. I&#8217;d guess that that&#8217;s what he wanted; he didn&#8217;t want the team or the public to be distracted by or fixated on his illness.<\/p>\n<p>I got to see him race at the Fairgrounds a few times. He gave Casey Atwood a lot of help when he was getting started, and Atwood drove the #43 at the Fairgrounds that was owned by Hamilton. One memorable moment was when Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was practicing for a late model race at the track. He and another car wrecked, and both cars burned to the ground. Everyone was ok, but Earnhardt was left without a ride.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton offered Little Earnhardt the use of one of Atwood&#8217;s spare cars. That season, Atwood was driving Fords. Little E had to get permission from his dad before he could drive the Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The racing world lost a truly nice guy today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I just surfed over to Jayski&#8217;s site a few minutes ago and was stunned to see that Bobby Hamilton had passed away. I think everyone had expected him to get better, but the cancer must have been worse than publicized. I&#8217;d guess that that&#8217;s what he wanted; he didn&#8217;t want the team or the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/bobby-hamilton-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bobby Hamilton, RIP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}