{"id":20680,"date":"2014-01-14T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20680"},"modified":"2014-01-14T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:11:32","slug":"buttons-father-john-dies-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/buttons-father-john-dies-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Button&#8217;s father John dies at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button&#8217;s father, a highly popular F1 figure and a long-standing paddock regular, has died.<\/p>\n<p>John Button, a former rallycross driver and preparer of kart engines, died at the age of 70 at his home in France of a suspected heart-attack, McLaren driver Button&#8217;s management announced in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He was an always-smiling presence in the F1 paddock, rarely &#8211; if ever &#8211; missing a race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since Jenson was a boy, racing go-karts, his dad has been at his side, helping him, supporting him,&#8221; McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button&#8217;s father, a highly popular F1 figure and a long-standing paddock regular, has died. John Button, a former rallycross driver and preparer of kart engines, died at the age of 70 at his home in France of a suspected heart-attack, McLaren driver Button&#8217;s management announced in a statement. He was an always-smiling presence in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,153,4751,491,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20681,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions\/20681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}