{"id":845,"date":"2006-02-16T06:17:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T11:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-would-brian-boitano-do\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T06:17:44","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T11:17:44","slug":"what-would-brian-boitano-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-would-brian-boitano-do","title":{"rendered":"What Would Brian Boitano Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t write about the winter Olympics because I don&#8217;t give a crap about any of the events, except the sublimely named Super G.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I had to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060210\/SPORTS\/602100341\/-1\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\">this link from Drudge<\/a> about some knucklehead U.S. figure skater who wore a throwback USSR warmup jacket during a practice session today. He claims to be a major Russophile, and what better way to celebrate it than to have the good ol&#8217; CCCP across your chest?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if he&#8217;d been wearing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/museum\/exhibit\/online\/olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">throwback German jersey (c. 1936)<\/a>, it&#8217;d be a much different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t write about the winter Olympics because I don&#8217;t give a crap about any of the events, except the sublimely named Super G. Still, I had to follow this link from Drudge about some knucklehead U.S. figure skater who wore a throwback USSR warmup jacket during a practice session today. He claims to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-would-brian-boitano-do\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Would Brian Boitano Do?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-implicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-dD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1311,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/duke-it-out-bitch","url_meta":{"origin":845,"position":0},"title":"Duke it out, bitch","author":"Gil","date":"January 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months ago, I wrote about how Gilbert Arenas is one of my favorite NBA players. 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