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Fun article here about how Greg Horn, a most excellent comics artist, was commissioned to paint the Official US Olympics Basketball Team<\/a> (rather than the traditional group photo), and the trials and travails that ensued.<\/p>\n

Pity the team didn’t do as well as the painting<\/a> deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fun article here about how Greg Horn, a most excellent comics artist, was commissioned to paint the Official US Olympics Basketball Team (rather than the traditional group photo), and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/tweets-from-2012-07-28.html","url_meta":{"origin":6502,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2012-07-28","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jul-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Color commentary on Olympics \"Parade of Nations\" varied between vaguely informative, banal, and joshingly insulting to those nations. #fail # Why is the American team wearing berets during the Parade of Nations? 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