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As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glumbert.com\/media\/badminton\" target=\"_blank\">Exhibit A<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"496\" height=\"372\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.glumbert.com\/embed\/badminton\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.average-bear.com\/archive\/009261.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badminton has a rep as a silly, effete, amateurish, and\/or wussy game &#8212; but from my own recollections in high school (where I did not half-bad at at), it has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129639,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/mal-shrugged.html","url_meta":{"origin":10262,"position":0},"title":"Mal Shrugged","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Feb-16 5:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Think \"Firefly\"'s Mal Reynolds is a bold individualist seeking misbhaving personal freedom for himself and his own? 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