{"id":1292,"date":"2007-01-16T06:16:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bookends\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T11:16:06","slug":"bookends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bookends","title":{"rendered":"Bookends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you have goofed on me for keeping that list of every book I’ve finished since 1989<\/a>. I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that Art Garfunkel has been keeping a list of every book he’s read since 1968<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you have goofed on me for keeping that list of every book I’ve finished since 1989. I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that Art Garfunkel has been keeping a list of every book he’s read since 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-bookends","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":231,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/keeping-up-with-the-joneses","url_meta":{"origin":1292,"position":0},"title":"Keeping Up with the Joneses","author":"Gil","date":"May 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"It was the best of Jones, it was the worst of Jones.(Okay, it was a dumb headline. 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