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I just couldn’t resist that headline after I saw this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just couldn’t resist that headline after I saw this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-sports","tag-squatch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Ef","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":393,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":2495,"position":0},"title":"\"Last taboo,\" my assSorry, couldn't\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"October 3, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Last taboo,\" my assSorry, couldn't resist the headline after reading about this book in the Times today.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1994,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/stop-trying-to-be-literary","url_meta":{"origin":2495,"position":1},"title":"STOP TRYING TO BE LITERARY!","author":"Gil","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This article in New York on the grotesquerie that is the New York Knicks is pretty entertaining. 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