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Those of you who have come out to Stately VM Estates may think<\/em> that Amy & I live out in the sticks. I go to some lengths to point out that, no matter how isolated my town is, it’s nowhere near as bad as the next town over, West Milford. And now I have proof<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who have come out to Stately VM Estates may think that Amy & I live out in the sticks. I go to some lengths to point out that, no matter how isolated my town is, it’s nowhere near as bad as the next town over, West Milford. And now I have proof.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suburbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-cowtown","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2052,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/we-are-the-goon-squad-and-were-coming-to-town","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":0},"title":"We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town","author":"Gil","date":"May 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Do fashion detectives get promoted from the rank-and-file of the fashion police?","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":490,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mystery-achievement","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":1},"title":"Mystery Achievement","author":"Gil","date":"February 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Jennifer Weiner explains how to submit a Talk of the Town piece to the New Yorker.Step eight: Paranoia. 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