{"id":1039,"date":"2006-07-20T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/da-boot\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T05:00:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T10:00:26","slug":"da-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/da-boot","title":{"rendered":"Da Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the World Cup, Bill “Sports Guy” Simmons (as opposed to Don “No Soul” Simmons) decided he would start supporting an English Premier League soccer team, and asked his fans for advice on which team to support. The massive<\/em> article that resulted<\/a> makes for some fun reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the World Cup, Bill “Sports Guy” Simmons (as opposed to Don “No Soul” Simmons) decided he would start supporting an English Premier League soccer team, and asked his fans for advice on which team to support. The massive article that resulted makes for some fun reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-gL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3300,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/to-a-boyle","url_meta":{"origin":1039,"position":0},"title":"To a Boyle","author":"Gil","date":"January 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was listening to The B.S. 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