{"id":787,"date":"2004-03-19T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/neckcar_tracks_not_freespeech\/"},"modified":"2004-03-19T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2004-03-20T04:31:08","slug":"neckcar_tracks_not_freespeech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/neckcar_tracks_not_freespeech\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;NECKCAR Tracks Not Free-Speech Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m obviously not  NASCAR fan; I didn&#8217;t hear about <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/motorsports\/archives\/04\/03\/48466714.shtml?Element_ID=48466714\">this incident from last Sunday&#8217;s race<\/a> until yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASCAR doesn&#8217;t share their perception. It ordered driver Derrike Cope to remove the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redneckjunk.com\/\">Redneckjunk.com<\/a> sponsorship logos from his car prior to last weekend&#8217;s activities at Atlanta Motor Speedway.<br \/>\nRedneckjunk.com is a Naples, Fla.-based company that sells used sporting goods and auto parts.<br \/>\n&#8221;We just didn&#8217;t feel like that projected the proper image of our sport,&#8221; said NASCAR spokesman Herb Branham.<br \/>\nAmong sponsors permitted to participate in the Atlanta race were three beer companies and a casino. It&#8217;s also very difficult to secure a sponsorship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny (and ironic) how this &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; sport takes ads from beer companies, casinos, and Viagra, but not something containing &#8220;redneck.&#8221;  It&#8217;s all about image, isn&#8217;t it?  Though I suspect this &#8220;image&#8221; might be a bit different if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redneckjunk.com\/\">Redneckjunk.com<\/a> had a few million to spend on advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/neckcar_tracks_not_freespeech\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8216;NECKCAR Tracks Not Free-Speech Zones\"><p>I&#8217;m obviously not NASCAR fan; I didn&#8217;t hear about this incident from last Sunday&#8217;s race until yesterday: NASCAR doesn&#8217;t share their perception. It ordered driver Derrike Cope to remove the Redneckjunk.com sponsorship logos from his car prior to last weekend&#8217;s activities at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Redneckjunk.com is a Naples, Fla.-based company that sells used sporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}