{"id":1975,"date":"2008-04-01T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-plead-the-sith\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T19:08:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T23:08:14","slug":"i-plead-the-sith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-plead-the-sith","title":{"rendered":"I plead the Sith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darth Pimp and his Storm Hos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onceuponageek\/2341742039\/in\/set-72157604147122115\/\" title=\"Big Pimpin' with DV\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/darthpimp.jpg?resize=475%2C356\" height=\"356\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing I can add to this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darth Pimp and his Storm Hos: There&#8217;s nothing I can add to this one.<\/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-1975","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-vR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":554,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sith-happens","url_meta":{"origin":1975,"position":0},"title":"Sith Happens","author":"Gil","date":"May 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I stole that headline from the Observer or somewhere; sorry.Anyway, VM contributor Tom Spurgeon offers up 10 reasons he may not see Star Wars III, including 2. 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