{"id":4138,"date":"2009-07-01T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2009-07-01T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T18:20:39","slug":"good-night-sweet-explosive-thin-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-explosive-thin-man","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, Sweet Explosive Thin Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Arguello, a famous lightweight boxer, was found <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/sports\/boxing\/news\/story?id=4299144\" target=\"_blank\">shot to death<\/a> at age 57. The HBO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxboxing.com\/Kim\/kim030503.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary Nights<\/a> special about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesweetscience.com\/boxing-article\/345\/pryor-arguello-memorable-more-ways-than-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">his fights with Aaron Pryor<\/a> was fantastic, as I recall.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, that whole series was amazing. I oughtta see if they&#8217;re on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Arguello, a famous lightweight boxer, was found shot to death at age 57. The HBO Legendary Nights special about his fights with Aaron Pryor was fantastic, as I recall. Boy, that whole series was amazing. I oughtta see if they&#8217;re on Netflix.<\/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":[761,760],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-aaron-pryor","tag-alexis-arguello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-14K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":759,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rip-4","url_meta":{"origin":4138,"position":0},"title":"RIP","author":"Gil","date":"December 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Richard Pryor was one of the funniest performers ever to grace this world. 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