{"id":2436,"date":"2008-09-13T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2008-09-13T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T02:51:11","slug":"action-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/action-tank","title":{"rendered":"Action Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only guy who didn&#8217;t know that <a href=\"http:\/\/hoopedia.nba.com\/index.php\/Troy_Jackson_AKA_-_Escalade\" target=\"_blank\">Escalade is the younger brother of Mark Jackson<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only guy who didn&#8217;t know that Escalade is the younger brother of Mark Jackson?<\/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":[321,319,320],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-sports","tag-and1","tag-escalade","tag-mark-jackson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Di","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1962,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/poverty-oughtta-by-some-kevlar","url_meta":{"origin":2436,"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 &quot;basketball&quot;","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":417,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":2436,"position":1},"title":"NBA Preview: Western Overviewby Tom\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"November 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"NBA Preview: Western Overviewby Tom SpurgeonHere are my general predictions for the western portion of the National Basketball Association, now split into three divisions so that Gil could catch me not knowing anything about the league's change three days after I lied and said I was done with this report.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1903,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hedge-fun","url_meta":{"origin":2436,"position":2},"title":"Hedge Fun","author":"Gil","date":"February 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Some editor at ESPN has deep ambivalence about Stephen Jackson: A CLEAN LOOK People have lots of ideas about Stephen Jackson. 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