{"id":2627,"date":"2017-07-29T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2022-11-09T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:31:10","slug":"poconos-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"Pocono&#8217;s Potato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Father&#8217;s Day, Ben and Nate gave me a visit to the NASCAR Pocono 400 racetrack.\u00a0 Known among race fans as the &#8220;Tricky Triangle,&#8221; a 2 1\/2 mile test of drivers skills.\u00a0 We (Ben, Nate, the Chief Photographer and I) went to the time trials on Saturday before the race. Interesting and much different than watching a Sunday race.\u00a0 Cars in and out of the pits working on set-ups, tires, etc.\u00a0 During one of the breaks we walked around some of the booths and I saw this Big Idaho Potato.\u00a0 (It was first spotted by Olivia,\u00a0the niece of my Number One Fan, when she was in Idaho &#8211;\u00a0check out the Bird Dog page.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2628\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2628\" data-attachment-id=\"2628\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=2628\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?fit=2160%2C1423\" data-orig-size=\"2160,1423\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1501322770&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00037893141341417&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pocono Potato\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;17potato&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Pocono Potato&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?fit=145%2C96\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?fit=494%2C325\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2628\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?resize=494%2C325\" alt=\"potato\" width=\"494\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?resize=494%2C325 494w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?resize=150%2C99 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?resize=145%2C96 145w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?resize=768%2C506 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17potato.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pocono Potato<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Father&#8217;s Day, Ben and Nate gave me a visit to the NASCAR Pocono 400 racetrack.\u00a0 Known among race fans as the &#8220;Tricky Triangle,&#8221; a 2 1\/2 mile test of drivers skills.\u00a0 We (Ben, Nate, the Chief Photographer and I) went to the time trials on Saturday before the race. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=2627\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-Gn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}