{"id":3218,"date":"2009-01-12T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2009-01-11T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:33:21","slug":"today-i-am-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/today-i-am-the-greatest","title":{"rendered":"Today, I am the greatest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later today, the MLB 2009 Hall of Fame class will be announced, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/11\/sports\/baseball\/11henderson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rickey Henderson<\/a> will likely have the most votes of anyone in nearly 10 years. I&#8217;m sure pre-steroid Barry Bonds would beg to differ, but I think Rickey&#8217;s the greatest player I&#8217;ve ever seen. I&#8217;d love to see him give a 2-hour induction speech in which he lobbies to get on an major league roster for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later today, the MLB 2009 Hall of Fame class will be announced, and Rickey Henderson will likely have the most votes of anyone in nearly 10 years. I&#8217;m sure pre-steroid Barry Bonds would beg to differ, but I think Rickey&#8217;s the greatest player I&#8217;ve ever seen. I&#8217;d love to see him give a 2-hour induction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/today-i-am-the-greatest\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today, I am the greatest!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[32],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-rickey-henderson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-PU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4253,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-72709","url_meta":{"origin":3218,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 7\/27\/09","author":"Gil","date":"July 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: I finished A Drifting Life, and started Edwin Mullhouse, which came up in last week's 0-fer post. 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