{"id":1567,"date":"2007-06-25T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-rabid-wolverine\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:27:47","slug":"good-night-rabid-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-rabid-wolverine","title":{"rendered":"Good night, Rabid Wolverine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy &amp; I were clicking around the TV tonight when, on a whim, I stopped on Monday Night Raw. I saw Vince McMahon tearfully talking about all the contributions made by someone named Chris.<\/p>\n<p>You never know when you see one of these if it&#8217;s just a bit. But it turned out that one of my favorite rasslers, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Benoit\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Benoit<\/a>, was found dead in his home today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/World\/2007\/06\/25\/4289665.html\" target=\"_blank\">along with his wife and his 7-year-old kid<\/a>. Right now, there&#8217;s no word on what transpired or how they were found, except that they weren&#8217;t shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw Benoit perform, he had just come over to the WWF along with Eddie Guerrero (dead of a heart attack in 2005), Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn, who were known as The Radicalz (I found their politics to be quite mainstream). Eddie was the most popular of the four, probably due to of his latino appeal, but Chris could get <em>anyone <\/em>over.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences to the remainder of his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy &amp; I were clicking around the TV tonight when, on a whim, I stopped on Monday Night Raw. I saw Vince McMahon tearfully talking about all the contributions made by someone named Chris. You never know when you see one of these if it&#8217;s just a bit. But it turned out that one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-rabid-wolverine\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good night, Rabid Wolverine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1567","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-ph","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11838,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-292-eddie-campbell","url_meta":{"origin":1567,"position":0},"title":"Episode 292 &#8211; Eddie Campbell","author":"Gil","date":"October 23, 2018","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 292: Eddie Campbell \"What if you could be employed just sitting in a pub telling stories? 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