{"id":1566,"date":"2007-06-29T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-29-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T05:03:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T10:03:33","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-29-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-29-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 29, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

This issue will be over-and-done soon, dear readers. Till then, have some links.<\/p>\n

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The AV Club offers up 10 directors you didn’t know you hated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wit, wisdom, etc.: Don’t eat before yoga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Stossel. Brooks. The smackdown<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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I read Under the Volcano<\/a> earlier this year. It had some beautiful passages, but I found it long-winded and boring. On the 50th anniversary of Malcolm Lowry’s death, this guy contends it’s the single most potent novel of the 20th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I will likely never get around to reading Gunter Grass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Does it matter where a drug company is headquartered, or where it makes most of its revenues<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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“Peak oil,” my ass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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TANSTAATFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Luckily for me, my wife loves guys with scrawny arms<\/a>. (Some of the comments are priceless)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This issue will be over-and-done soon, dear readers. Till then, have some links.<\/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":[27,4,12,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-literature","category-pharmaceuticals","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}