{"id":1300,"date":"2007-01-19T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T02:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-best-of-news\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T02:36:05","slug":"the-best-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-best-of-news","title":{"rendered":"The best of news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official VM buddy Craig S. is a dad! He and wife Wendy are the proud parents of Isaac Samuel S. who was born early Monday morning, 1\/15\/2007. I.S.S. was 6 lbs, 8 oz and 20.5 in. Baby and mom are both doing very well, Craig reports!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1301\" alt=\"craigandike\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc00269.JPG?w=525\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official VM buddy Craig S. is a dad! He and wife Wendy are the proud parents of Isaac Samuel S. who was born early Monday morning, 1\/15\/2007. I.S.S. was 6 lbs, 8 oz and 20.5 in. 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(Arenas) * * * Costuming Inception (spoiler alert) * * * Words can't do justice, so I'll try acronyms: GFY on JLH's TCL (spoiler alert, too, I guess) * * * So, wait: Charlie Chan was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;basketball&quot;","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1146,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/name-that-subdivision","url_meta":{"origin":1300,"position":4},"title":"Name that Subdivision","author":"Gil","date":"October 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"BLDGBLOG linked to a handy guide for naming suburban Denver subdivisions. Not to be outdone, Denver resident and VM buddy Craig offers up a link to the Nietzsche Family Circus. Hit reload. 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