{"id":1608,"date":"2007-07-30T13:40:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-gin-makes-me-virtually-invulnerable-to-criticism\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:40:41","slug":"and-gin-makes-me-virtually-invulnerable-to-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-gin-makes-me-virtually-invulnerable-to-criticism","title":{"rendered":"And gin makes me virtually invulnerable (to criticism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070730\/ap_on_he_me\/fitness_anti_cancer_caffeine_2\" target=\"_blank\">Caffeine can help fight skin cancer<\/a>! I bet it makes the cells so hyperactive they just get tired and conk out.<\/p>\n<p>Now I feel less bad about the monstrous caffeine addiction I&#8217;ve fostered over the last few years. Go, coffee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caffeine can help fight skin cancer! I bet it makes the cells so hyperactive they just get tired and conk out. Now I feel less bad about the monstrous caffeine addiction I&#8217;ve fostered over the last few years. Go, coffee!<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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":1276,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/shock-the-monkey-with-caffeine","url_meta":{"origin":1608,"position":0},"title":"Shock the Monkey (with caffeine)","author":"Gil","date":"January 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months ago, I wrote about a strange moment in a Dunkin Donuts on my morning commute. 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