{"id":1691,"date":"2007-10-10T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/great-now-im-afraid-to-die\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T21:52:37","slug":"great-now-im-afraid-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/great-now-im-afraid-to-die","title":{"rendered":"Great. Now I’m afraid to die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Bierut shows us how to eulogize someone who was batshit-crazy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Bierut shows us how to eulogize someone who was batshit-crazy.<\/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":[25,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-rh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1672,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sep-21-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1691,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Sep. 21, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"September 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"To my Jewish readers: have an easy fast. 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