{"id":1885,"date":"2008-02-05T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/im-in-my-element\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:19:49","slug":"im-in-my-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/im-in-my-element","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m in my Element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just call me <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_B._&amp;_Rakim\" target=\"_blank\">Eric B. &amp; Rakim<\/a>, because I&#8217;m paid in full:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/paid.jpg?resize=450%2C210\" height=\"210\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, if I can just keep this car rolling for a few more years, I can stow away enough dough for a down payment on that <a href=\"http:\/\/yeoldecomicblogge.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/why-jimmy-olsen-cant-have-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">solid gold rocket car<\/a> I&#8217;ve had my eye on. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just call me Eric B. &amp; Rakim, because I&#8217;m paid in full: Now, if I can just keep this car rolling for a few more years, I can stow away enough dough for a down payment on that solid gold rocket car I&#8217;ve had my eye on. . .<\/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-1885","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-up","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1241,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/customer-disservice","url_meta":{"origin":1885,"position":0},"title":"Customer Disservice","author":"Gil","date":"December 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't even pretend that you're interested in reading my long tirade about the service department at Mahwah Honda, my local Honda dealership, which managed turned a flat tire into an epic. 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