{"id":1851,"date":"2008-01-14T07:46:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/scenes-from-a-weekend\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T12:46:29","slug":"scenes-from-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/scenes-from-a-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from a weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of a post on Sunday; I did resolve to post something every day, although I didn’t make any resolutions about the quality of those posts.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a pretty relaxed weekend. Amy & I drove down to Manalapan on Sunday for her friend Naomi’s wedding. It was a traditional Jewish wedding, with various celebrations that I sorta figure were traditional to Russian Jews. I’m sure Amy’ll write about it this week.<\/p>\n

Me, I’m gonna send you over to a small set of pix<\/a> from the weekend, including Santa In Chains:<\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/p>\n

And, for your edification — or your imagination — the secret and partially fictive history of the revolving door<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of a post on Sunday; I did resolve to post something every day, although I didn’t make any resolutions about the quality of those posts. Anyway, it was a pretty relaxed weekend. Amy & I drove down to Manalapan on Sunday for her friend Naomi’s wedding. It was a traditional Jewish … <\/p>\n

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