{"id":1903,"date":"2008-02-15T07:12:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T12:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hedge-fun\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T07:12:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T12:12:42","slug":"hedge-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hedge-fun","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some editor at ESPN has deep ambivalence about Stephen Jackson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A CLEAN LOOK<\/p>\n

People have lots of ideas about Stephen Jackson. Almost none of them are quite right.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To quote Miller’s Crossing<\/a> (again), “Don’t let on more than you have to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some editor at ESPN has deep ambivalence about Stephen Jackson: A CLEAN LOOK People have lots of ideas about Stephen Jackson. Almost none of them are quite right. To quote Miller’s Crossing (again), “Don’t let on more than you have to.”<\/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":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-uH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1962,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/poverty-oughtta-by-some-kevlar","url_meta":{"origin":1903,"position":0},"title":"Poverty oughtta by some Kevlar","author":"Gil","date":"March 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I didn't know poverty had been hanging around Indiana strip clubs lately, but it needs to watch its ass, because \"Stephen Jackson to fight poverty globally\" (And poverty better not throw a cup at any of Stephen's teammates.)","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9311,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-149-keith-knight","url_meta":{"origin":1903,"position":1},"title":"Episode 149 – Keith Knight","author":"Gil","date":"January 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #149: Keith Knight \"The talk about race in America hinges on how comfortable white people are with it. 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