{"id":1578,"date":"2007-07-06T05:11:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-7-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T05:11:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:11:58","slug":"unrequired-reading-july-7-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-7-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: July 7, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the drill: lots of neat links after “more”:<\/p>\n

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Like most people, I assumed authoritarian China would overwhelm Hong Kong after the handover. Now I’m starting to think HK’s capitalist fervor has infected the rest of the country. Happy 10th anniversary<\/a>.
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An Unrequired Reading post without a Design link would be like extracting the essence from existing relationships between people and objects<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Go ape<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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My buddy Mitch has posted another report from Gaza<\/a>, including a scoop on some internecine killings.<\/p>\n

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And speaking of which, it’s a brief history of the car bomb<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Beta design for beta people<\/a>. (Love for everybody)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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(the writer seems a little surprised that a human being can have thoughts and beliefs that don't all line up perfectly with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}