{"id":507,"date":"2005-03-11T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=507"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:21:23","slug":"follow-the-bouncing-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/follow-the-bouncing-blog","title":{"rendered":"Follow the bouncing blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess it’s not that<\/em> weird that the NBA has started running blogs<\/a> by various players, commentators, and front-office personnel.<\/p>\n

No, what’s weird is that they decided to launch a blog written by Scottie Pippen<\/a>. It’ll probably be a greatly underrated blog, but really help nullify the other team’s best blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess it’s not that weird that the NBA has started running blogs by various players, commentators, and front-office personnel. No, what’s weird is that they decided to launch a blog written by Scottie Pippen. It’ll probably be a greatly underrated blog, but really help nullify the other team’s best blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-8b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2064,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/working-like-a-dog","url_meta":{"origin":507,"position":0},"title":"Working like a dog","author":"Gil","date":"May 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was \"Take your Rufus to work day\": That weird device next to Rufus' head is a Soundstick, from Amy's old computer. 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