{"id":1195,"date":"2006-11-07T06:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/yeah-brock-you-hit-him-so-hard-he-has-an-afro-now\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T11:43:20","slug":"yeah-brock-you-hit-him-so-hard-he-has-an-afro-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/yeah-brock-you-hit-him-so-hard-he-has-an-afro-now","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Brock! You hit him so hard he has an afro now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official VM buddy Mitch Prothero sent over a news item about how the Washington Wizards’ two centers got into a brawl last week<\/a>. He was amazed that Brendan “Brenda” Haywood showed some fire, body-slamming Etan Thomas.<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, was amazed that Haywood “[tore] out at least two of Thomas’s dreadlocks in the process.”<\/p>\n

Now I seriously regret my decision to skip the Washington\/Orlando game last night. I would’ve been close enough to get pictures of Thomas’s bald spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Official VM buddy Mitch Prothero sent over a news item about how the Washington Wizards’ two centers got into a brawl last week. He was amazed that Brendan “Brenda” Haywood showed some fire, body-slamming Etan Thomas. I, on the other hand, was amazed that Haywood “[tore] out at least two of Thomas’s dreadlocks in the … <\/p>\n

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