{"id":15492,"date":"2008-05-10T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15492.html"},"modified":"2008-05-10T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T13:00:36","slug":"national-day-of-prayer-racecar-cursed-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/national-day-of-prayer-racecar-cursed-by-god\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Prayer racecar cursed by God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"mailto:morbomorboson@hotmail.com\">Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of folks are into NASCAR. I&#8217;m not, but if you enjoy it, more power to you.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the organizations sponsoring cars at NASCAR events these days are a little unusual. This year, the National Day of Prayer Task Force sponsored a car. You can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndptf.org\/press_room\/Index.cfm?Entity=4&#038;Department=4&#038;Dept_Order=1&#038;This_TopicOrder=1&#038;This_SubtopicOrder=6\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The car&#8217;s driver, Joe Nemechek, raced the car at an event at the Talladega Superspeedway April 27. He even earned the coveted pole position. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family went down to Alabama to watch the race. Dobson&#8217;s wife, Shirley, runs the National Day of Prayer Task Force. A Dobson pal, H.B. London, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hblondon.org\/2008\/04\/the-national-da.html\">reports<\/a> what happened next: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sunday was a big day for the NASCAR fans who support the National Day of Prayer Task Force. Driver Joe Nemechek, and the #78 car, won the pole (best qualifying time) and eventually finished in 25th place at the Talladega Super Speedway. It was exciting because the one-car team, owned by the Furniture Row folks, was wrapped in the National Day of Prayer logo and colors. Dr. Dobson held the chapel service before the race.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, H.B., I don&#8217;t know how to break it to you, but your car was bathed in prayer &#8212; and came in 25th place?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI have not been able to find out how many cars were in the race, but unless it was something like 740, 25th place is pretty lame.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Dobson himself later wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The car was in the eighth position on the last lap before crashing just a mile from the finish line.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh? The thing <i>crashed<\/i>?! (I&#8217;m happy to report Nemecheck was not injured.)<\/p>\n<p>Jim, are you sure God&#8217;s not trying to tell you something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Morbo A lot of folks are into NASCAR. I&#8217;m not, but if you enjoy it, more power to you. Some of the organizations sponsoring cars at NASCAR events these days are a little unusual. This year, the National Day of Prayer Task Force sponsored a car. You can see it here. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}