{"id":1389,"date":"2007-03-11T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/minor-improvement\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T19:37:38","slug":"minor-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/minor-improvement","title":{"rendered":"Minor improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve ever tried to print this blog out or make a PDF of it, but it used to look godawful in that format. I just figured out how to tailor the CSS file to allow for a print\/PDF that looks like the actual page (which you may also think is godawful, but hey). So, if you want to print out the site to show it to all of your non-internettified friends, you can do so with impunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve ever tried to print this blog out or make a PDF of it, but it used to look godawful in that format. I just figured out how to tailor the CSS file to allow for a print\/PDF that looks like the actual page (which you may also think is godawful, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/minor-improvement\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor improvement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1385,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hot-gates-hot-box-office","url_meta":{"origin":1389,"position":0},"title":"Hot Gates, Hot Box Office?","author":"Gil","date":"March 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A few posts ago, I mentioned that I was going to mark-out for 300, and that Amy & I would likely go catch it this weekend at the local IMAX, so as to get the full theme-park experience of Thermopylae on a giant screen. 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