{"id":1229,"date":"2006-12-01T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/required-reading\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T12:55:58","slug":"required-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/required-reading","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official VM wife has started her own blog! She’s at Minimally Invasive<\/a>. Since it uses the same template as this blog (I’m cheap), you’ll only be able to tell us apart by the fact that Amy’s posts are far less jaded than mine. Also, she has better hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Down the line, we may put up duelling posts about some of our domestic wackiness. For the moment, we decided she should take the lead on the time I almost made her a botulism-tainted martini<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Never a dull moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official VM wife has started her own blog! She’s at Minimally Invasive. Since it uses the same template as this blog (I’m cheap), you’ll only be able to tell us apart by the fact that Amy’s posts are far less jaded than mine. Also, she has better hair. Down the line, we may put … <\/p>\n

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