{"id":863500,"date":"2026-08-19T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863500\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:54:11","slug":"nascar-declares-august-18th-as-kyle-busch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863500\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR declares August 18th as &#8220;Kyle Busch Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 NASCAR has declared Wednesday, August 18th, as \u201cKyle Busch Day.\u201d The date, 8-18, represents two numbers Busch drove during his Cup Series career.<\/p>\n<p>He won two Cup Series titles driving the number 18 car, and later drove the number eight for Richard Childress Racing. Busch won a record 234 races across NSACAR\u2019s top three series. He\u2019ll also be honored at Charlotte Motor Speedway in October.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old died in May after bacterial pneumonia turned into sepsis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 NASCAR has declared Wednesday, August 18th, as \u201cKyle Busch Day.\u201d The date, 8-18, represents two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-863500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}