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I didn’t know poverty had been hanging around Indiana strip clubs<\/a> lately, but it needs to watch its ass, because<\/p>\n

“Stephen Jackson to fight poverty globally”<\/a><\/p>\n

(And poverty better not throw a cup at any of Stephen’s teammates<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.)<\/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-1962","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-vE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3212,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/poor-excuse-for-art","url_meta":{"origin":1962,"position":0},"title":"Poor Excuse for Art","author":"Gil","date":"January 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure I agree with the writer's point \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that post-crash poverty freed Rembrandt do pursue his art for its own sake \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it's been a long time since I posted a Rembrandt link up here, so enjoy.","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":998,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lunch-break","url_meta":{"origin":1962,"position":1},"title":"Lunch break!","author":"Gil","date":"June 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a neat post at the Cato Institute's blog-group, about the scandals of former (and now late) Irish PM Charles Haughey: [W]as Ireland better off with a corrupt prime minister who kick-started economic growth than it would have been with an honest socialist who kept Ireland in poverty? 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