{"id":18,"date":"2009-04-28T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/04\/28\/the-rumor-mill\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:15:46","slug":"the-rumor-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/04\/28\/the-rumor-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rumor Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">13 Feb 2009<\/span>: We recently heard a rumor that one of our local tracks was not going to provide payouts at bracket races. However, after contacting the track they have indicated this is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">false<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I suggest before racers &amp; fans start posting rumors all over the internet and various blogs, that they check with the SOURCE beforehand!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The internet can be a great source of information, however it is often abused by people with their own personal agendas or bias!\u00a0 False rumors only hurt our sport and increase anxiety. I think we have enough anxiety dealing with the facts and what we hear everyday in the news!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Roger Young &#8211; <em>Edwards &amp; Young Racing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Related article<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/update.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"10\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9902&amp;Itemid=21\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Shirley Says: A New Column By Shirley Muldowney<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> <\/span>&#8211; <em>Competition Plus.com<\/em> &#8211; April 24, 2009<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;What I have to admit I hate about the \u2018Net is how easy it is to spread falsehoods about someone. Just because someone has a blog doesn\u2019t mean what they\u2019re writing is the truth. The same goes for some of the sites that are devoted to drag racing. Stories that I\u2019ve seen called &#8216;news&#8217; sometimes don\u2019t even qualify as rumors, but by the time everyone figures that out the damage is done&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Feb 2009: We recently heard a rumor that one of our local tracks was not going to provide payouts at bracket races. However, after contacting the track they have indicated this is false. I suggest before racers &amp; fans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/04\/28\/the-rumor-mill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rumor-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}