{"id":1350,"date":"2013-06-24T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:00:28","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/24\/a-modern-home-scholar-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers\/large_logano\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-813\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"large_logano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/large_logano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home schooled from the fourth grade, Joey Logano is known in racing circles\u00a0by\u00a0his\u00a0nickname, \u201cSliced Bread,\u201d as in, \u201cthe greatest thing since\u2026\u201d\u00a0He has certainly established himself as one of the\u00a0best young stock car drivers around. Logano starter racing when his was six and won the national junior stock car racing national championship just a year later.\u00a0Logano went on to become the youngest driver ever to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race, the youngest to take home Rookie of the Year honors, and the youngest to\u00a0race in\u00a0the legendary\u00a0Daytona 500.\u00a0Being home schooled allowed Logano to devote more time to racing than many of his peers. When\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">an interviewer asked<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the then eleven years old Logano in 2001\u00a0if he felt like he was missing out\u00a0on life with all the racing and training he was doing,\u00a0his reply was, \u201cI have home schooling and I really like that. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m missing anything by not going to school. I feel like I learn more that way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Home schooled from the fourth grade, Joey Logano is known in racing circles\u00a0by\u00a0his\u00a0nickname, \u201cSliced Bread,\u201d as in, \u201cthe greatest thing since\u2026\u201d\u00a0He has certainly established himself as one of the\u00a0best young stock car drivers around. Logano starter racing when his was six and won the national junior stock car racing national championship just a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}