{"id":1839,"date":"2008-01-01T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-new-year-5\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T16:32:42","slug":"happy-new-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-new-year-5","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a great 2008, dear readers! We&#8217;ll be spending today recovering from Amy&#8217;s dad&#8217;s last holiday gift to us from our Louisiana visit last week: a headcold.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here are my two photosets from that trip: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157603597070844\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157603597253572\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Alley Plantation<\/a>. Oh, and Amy wrote pretty extensively (with more pictures!) about our trip <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/mi\/my-week-of-living-gluttonously\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/mi\/new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m feeling up to it later, I&#8217;ll try to write something profound about my hopes for the coming year. Meanwhile, we&#8217;re gonna chill out and get back to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordoftherings.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lord of the Rings<\/a> marathon on the big TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a great 2008, dear readers! We&#8217;ll be spending today recovering from Amy&#8217;s dad&#8217;s last holiday gift to us from our Louisiana visit last week: a headcold. Meanwhile, here are my two photosets from that trip: New Orleans and Oak Alley Plantation. Oh, and Amy wrote pretty extensively (with more pictures!) about our trip here &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-new-year-5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year!&#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":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-orleans","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-tF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1522,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-cant-build-a-house-on-anger","url_meta":{"origin":1839,"position":0},"title":"You can&#8217;t build a house on anger","author":"Gil","date":"May 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Capehart of the WaPost visited New Orleans expecting to find anger and resentment: And then I got my feet on the ground in New Orleans. 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Unfortunately, ridiculous quantities of rain have led to flooding here in NJ\/NY, and flights are delayed all over the place.I'm glad\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2455,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/new-orleans-beijing-same-difference","url_meta":{"origin":1839,"position":4},"title":"New Orleans, Beijing: Same Difference","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicolai Ouroussoff: still here, still batshit-crazy. He asks why, if China could make a major architectural statement out of Beijing, the U.S. won't do the same in . . . New Orleans. No, really. 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