{"id":3299,"date":"2013-05-09T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2013-05-13T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:57:37","slug":"sportsman-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2013\/05\/09\/sportsman-disconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsman Disconnect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some\u00a0very interesting reading courtesy of <em>CompetitionPlus.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To say there is a disconnect, in my opinion, is a gross\u00a0understatement. Light discusses how the NHRA pours a lot of money into the Sportsman ranks, but we never hear how much money the Sportsman racers literally pour into NHRA on a annual basis in membership fees and for permanent numbers! &#8211; <em>Roger<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/drag-racing\/editorials\/25083-bobby-bennett-its-time-for-a-divorce\">BOBBY BENNETT: IT\u2019S TIME FOR A DIVORCE<\/a> &#8211; <em>CompetitionPlus<\/em> &#8211; May 13, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;There comes a time in any dysfunctional relationship when the parties involved must agree to disagree, and chart different paths. A true race fan would be hard-pressed to find a more dysfunctional marriage than what the NHRA and its sportsman racers has experienced for the last decade&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/drag-racing\/news\/24931-sportsman-racers-to-nhra-theres-definitely-a-disconnect\">SPORTSMAN RACERS TO NHRA: THERE&#8217;S DEFINITELY A DISCONNECT<\/a> &#8211; <em>CompetitionPlus<\/em> &#8211; May 9, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitionplus.com\/drag-racing\/news\/24929-racers-nhra-speak-about-houston-sportsman-cancellation-\">RACERS, NHRA SPEAK ABOUT HOUSTON SPORTSMAN CANCELLATION<\/a> &#8211; <em>CompetitionPlus<\/em> &#8211; May 3, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some\u00a0very interesting reading courtesy of CompetitionPlus.com To say there is a disconnect, in my opinion, is a gross\u00a0understatement. Light discusses how the NHRA pours a lot of money into the Sportsman ranks, but we never hear how much money &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2013\/05\/09\/sportsman-disconnect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussions","category-nhra-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}