{"id":1862,"date":"2008-01-24T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/ill-stick-with-xanax\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:54:04","slug":"ill-stick-with-xanax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/ill-stick-with-xanax","title":{"rendered":"I’ll stick with Xanax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, I thought I<\/em> had hangups about flying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Note: I was perfectly at ease with flying until a really rough takeoff on a flight to Phoenix in 2003. Since then, I’ve had varying degrees of jitters.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, I thought I had hangups about flying. (Note: I was perfectly at ease with flying until a really rough takeoff on a flight to Phoenix in 2003. Since then, I’ve had varying degrees of jitters.)<\/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-1862","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-u2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":204,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-flying-imam","url_meta":{"origin":1862,"position":0},"title":"The Flying Imam?","author":"Gil","date":"April 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry, but I'm not sure I would've disrupted the president's vacation in August 2001 if I received a CIA briefing titled, \"Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly\".","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":425,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/house-of-flying-corporate-capabilities-profiles","url_meta":{"origin":1862,"position":1},"title":"House of Flying Corporate Capabilities Profiles","author":"Gil","date":"December 19, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I took a break from the gigantic issue I'm working on, and watched Ying Xiong last night (that's Hero to you roundeyes). 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