{"id":1613,"date":"2007-08-01T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/starcents\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T20:05:17","slug":"starcents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/starcents","title":{"rendered":"Starcents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think this article should’ve had the headline, “How much more will you morons pay for substandard coffee?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

(not that I’m willing to try that McDonald’s coffee; I’ll stick with DD until Tim Horton reaches NJ)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this article should’ve had the headline, “How much more will you morons pay for substandard coffee?” (not that I’m willing to try that McDonald’s coffee; I’ll stick with DD until Tim Horton reaches NJ)<\/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-1613","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-q1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8449,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/coffee-my-romance","url_meta":{"origin":1613,"position":0},"title":"Coffee, My Romance","author":"Gil","date":"December 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A pal of mine recently wrote, \"I'm thinking of revamping our coffee system and immediately thought of you. 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