{"id":1528,"date":"2007-05-29T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bo-knew-plenty\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T22:19:25","slug":"bo-knew-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bo-knew-plenty","title":{"rendered":"Bo Knew Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 20 years since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/180\/story\/124608.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Jackson&#8217;s rookie season with the Royals<\/a>. My key Bo baseball memories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> that mammoth home-run in the All-Star game, and<\/li>\n<li>an inside-the-park home-run that he ran in like Olympic sprinter-time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ekL3Nm4VD0M\" target=\"_blank\">great Nike commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 20 years since Bo Jackson&#8217;s rookie season with the Royals. My key Bo baseball memories: that mammoth home-run in the All-Star game, and an inside-the-park home-run that he ran in like Olympic sprinter-time. Here&#8217;s that great Nike commercial.<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-oE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":984,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/boeing","url_meta":{"origin":1528,"position":0},"title":"Bo(e)ing","author":"Gil","date":"June 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Neat article in BusinessWeek about problems with the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. 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