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At first, I thought, “Why would a high school administration keep records of cage fights?”<\/a><\/p>\n

But then I realized that if you don’t<\/em> keep records, there’s no way of knowing who’s toughest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At first, I thought, “Why would a high school administration keep records of cage fights?” But then I realized that if you don’t keep records, there’s no way of knowing who’s toughest.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-WR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11758,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-286-moby","url_meta":{"origin":3649,"position":0},"title":"Episode 286 – Moby","author":"Gil","date":"September 10, 2018","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 286: Moby \"I love making music, but I don't think of it as a job anymore.\" Electronic dance musician Moby joins the show to talk about what he learned from writing his memoirs and what he learned from reading bad ones. 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