{"id":1364,"date":"2007-02-27T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kiss-the-rim\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T20:20:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T01:20:04","slug":"kiss-the-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kiss-the-rim","title":{"rendered":"Kiss the Rim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Howard is the best dunking big-man since Shawn Kemp. He got robbed on that &#8220;sticker on the glass&#8221; dunk during All-Star Weekend, and we got robbed because he didn&#8217;t get to bust out this dunk in the next round:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Oiwwnb3_U0o\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Howard is the best dunking big-man since Shawn Kemp. He got robbed on that &#8220;sticker on the glass&#8221; dunk during All-Star Weekend, and we got robbed because he didn&#8217;t get to bust out this dunk in the next round:<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-m0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":564,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/job-opening","url_meta":{"origin":1364,"position":0},"title":"Job Opening","author":"Gil","date":"June 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a vacancy in the NBA! 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