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To paraphrase David Letterman, I believe this profile of Linda McMahon<\/a> marks the first time professional wrestling has been referred to as “intellectual”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To paraphrase David Letterman, I believe this profile of Linda McMahon marks the first time professional wrestling has been referred to as “intellectual”.<\/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":[1],"tags":[373,374],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linda-mcmahon","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-GT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1567,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-rabid-wolverine","url_meta":{"origin":2659,"position":0},"title":"Good night, Rabid Wolverine","author":"Gil","date":"June 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Amy & I were clicking around the TV tonight when, on a whim, I stopped on Monday Night Raw. 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