{"id":1665,"date":"2007-09-14T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/next-up-myspace-page-of-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T15:09:12","slug":"next-up-myspace-page-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/next-up-myspace-page-of-the-dead","title":{"rendered":"Next up: Myspace Page Of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my buddies once told me that he knew someone who was writing a novel about a zombie plague, and that the story was going to be told in the form of blog-entries. He commented, &#8220;If there were a zombie plague going on, I doubt I&#8217;d have much time for blogging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that zombies are <em>so<\/em> 20th century, <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0848557\/\" target=\"_blank\">they only keep diaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I had a huge laugh when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0362919\/\" target=\"_blank\">this entry<\/a> in George Romero&#8217;s filmography) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my buddies once told me that he knew someone who was writing a novel about a zombie plague, and that the story was going to be told in the form of blog-entries. He commented, &#8220;If there were a zombie plague going on, I doubt I&#8217;d have much time for blogging.&#8221; It turns out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/next-up-myspace-page-of-the-dead\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Next up: Myspace Page Of the Dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1665","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-qR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2134,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-18-2008","url_meta":{"origin":1665,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: July 18, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"July 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have come back to tell you all . . . it's time for links! 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