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In other news about people with strange last names, Brett Favre has retired<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other news about people with strange last names, Brett Favre has retired.<\/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":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-vd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4710,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/passing-for-preterition","url_meta":{"origin":1935,"position":0},"title":"Passing for Preterition","author":"Gil","date":"December 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Several years ago, I had a Continental flight from O'Hare to Newark after\u00c2\u00a0 the annual BIO conference, an event once described to me as \"a singles bar for governors and venture capitalists.\" It's very finance-heavy, and a lot of the exhibit hall space is bought by regional economic development groups\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Football"","block_context":{"text":"Football","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/football"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3904,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/this-week-in-oh-no-he-dint","url_meta":{"origin":1935,"position":1},"title":"This Week in Oh, No, He Di’n’t!","author":"Gil","date":"May 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I goofed on Sports Illustrated for ignoring ongoing sports in favor of a Tolstoy-length profile of a guy who surfs. 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