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My town is in the news again. Turns out it’s just fine to eat the squirrels<\/a>! Great!<\/p>\n

Goddammit. Contra<\/em> our mayor, it is fine to pick on people who dine on squirrels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My town is in the news again. Turns out it’s just fine to eat the squirrels! Great! Goddammit. Contra our mayor, it is fine to pick on people who dine on squirrels.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suburbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-sk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1315,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/roadkill-warrior","url_meta":{"origin":1756,"position":0},"title":"Road(kill) Warrior","author":"Gil","date":"January 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear strange orange shadow-race of people who live on the edge of my suburban NJ town: Please stop eating the squirrels.","rel":"","context":"In "suburbs"","block_context":{"text":"suburbs","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/suburbs"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4702,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-113009","url_meta":{"origin":1756,"position":1},"title":"What It Is: 11\/30\/09","author":"Gil","date":"November 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: I took last week off so's I could keep our new dog, Otis B. 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