{"id":8134,"date":"2011-07-04T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2011-07-01T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T19:28:59","slug":"ochocinco-gets-150-mph-ride-with-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8134","title":{"rendered":"Ochocinco Gets 150-MPH Ride With Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMPTON, GA. &#8212; <strong>Chad Ochocinco<\/strong> turned to NASCAR on Thursday in his ongoing search for thrills away from the football field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ochocinco<\/strong> was strapped in for the ride as <strong>Jeff Burton<\/strong> drove his No. 31 car around Atlanta Motor Speedway on Thursday. <strong>Burton<\/strong> estimated he reached speeds of 150 to 160 miles per hour with <strong>Ochocinco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That seemed to satisfy <strong>Ochocinco<\/strong>, who climbed out and said &#8220;That was nice. That was real nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before the laps, <strong>Ochocinco<\/strong> said he made sure <strong>Burton<\/strong> was ready to push the Chevrolet. &#8220;I asked him to let loose,&#8221;<strong> Ochocinco <\/strong>said. &#8220;Please don&#8217;t waste my time. Step on the gas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ochocinco<\/strong>, the six-time Pro Bowl receiver, is making the most of his extended time away from football during the NFL lockout. He took the ride with <strong>Burton<\/strong> about six weeks after visiting the Professional Bull Riders circuit near Atlanta to ride a 1,500-pound bull for 1.5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He also has had a soccer tryout with Sporting Kansas City of the MLS and last year was one of the final four contestants in Dancing With the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Next?<strong> Ochocinco<\/strong> said he plans to wrestle an alligator in Florida. &#8220;If you&#8217;re not nervous, you&#8217;re not living,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m willing to try everything once.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMPTON, GA. &#8212; Chad Ochocinco turned to NASCAR on Thursday in his ongoing search for thrills away from the football field. Ochocinco was strapped in for the ride as Jeff Burton drove his No. 31 car around Atlanta Motor Speedway on Thursday. Burton estimated he reached speeds of 150 to 160 miles per hour with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}