{"id":1034,"date":"2006-07-18T18:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/see-the-sights\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T23:25:23","slug":"see-the-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/see-the-sights","title":{"rendered":"See the sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, devoted VM reader Elayne text-messaged me to let me know that she had just bumped into Gabriel Byrne. Today, my wife calls to let me know that she just bumped into Peyton Manning (the gravity field of his enormous noggin made this inevitable, I bet).<\/p>\n<p>Me? I work in northern NJ, so about all I can hope for is to cross paths with Danny Aiello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, devoted VM reader Elayne text-messaged me to let me know that she had just bumped into Gabriel Byrne. Today, my wife calls to let me know that she just bumped into Peyton Manning (the gravity field of his enormous noggin made this inevitable, I bet). Me? I work in northern NJ, so about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/see-the-sights\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;See the sights&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suburbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-gG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1890,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-8-2008","url_meta":{"origin":1034,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 8, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"February 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope you had a good week, dear readers! 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I promise to coordinate this thing better next year!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;NBA Preview&quot;","block_context":{"text":"NBA Preview","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball\/nba-preview"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5745,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-the-mark","url_meta":{"origin":1034,"position":5},"title":"On the Mark","author":"Gil","date":"November 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"While I was busy having a fantastic dinner at August last night, my pal Sam bumped into Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, in town to watch his team take on the Hornets tonight. 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