{"id":1582,"date":"2007-07-13T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-13-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T10:02:14","slug":"unrequired-reading-july-13-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-13-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: July 13, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aiee! It’s a Friday the 13th edition of Unrequired Reading<\/em>! Hockeymask-wearing, knife-wielding links coming up!<\/p>\n

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Okay. So there’s only one psycho-murderer link. Still, it’s a good one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Oh, and Spiked! pops the torture-movie balloon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Dan Drezner on the what scares him<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Green is the color of bullshit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The fairy prince defies categorization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

From the AV Club: 12 famous living recluses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I hear her family is also going to try to sue dirt and gravity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Best NBA name ever<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aiee! It’s a Friday the 13th edition of Unrequired Reading! Hockeymask-wearing, knife-wielding links coming up!<\/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":[2,27,18,20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-big-business","category-politics-implicit","category-religion","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-pw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2528,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sept-26-2008","url_meta":{"origin":1582,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Sept. 26, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"September 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Unrequired Reading is off this week! 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Just to give you something, here's the 3-D Yule Log.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1286,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-12-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1582,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 12, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for some post-birthday Unrequired Reading, dear unrequired readers! 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