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\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0People actually buy books when there are so damn many<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0People actually buy books when there are so damn many?<\/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":[46,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-o3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1490,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/diss-cover","url_meta":{"origin":1491,"position":0},"title":"Diss cover","author":"Gil","date":"May 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"People actually bought books when they had covers like these?","rel":"","context":"In "Design"","block_context":{"text":"Design","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/design"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2876,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cant-start-a-fire","url_meta":{"origin":1491,"position":1},"title":"Can’t start a fire","author":"Gil","date":"November 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I meandered around a Borders store for the second time in a week! 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