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Who’s the bigger lying sack of shit: Rafael Palmeiro<\/a> or Benon Savan<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who’s the bigger lying sack of shit: Rafael Palmeiro or Benon Savan?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","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-af","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1901,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-15-2008","url_meta":{"origin":635,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 15, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"February 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Linkus maximus: Just click \"More\". 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