{"id":2052,"date":"2008-05-10T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2008-05-10T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:49:26","slug":"we-are-the-goon-squad-and-were-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/we-are-the-goon-squad-and-were-coming-to-town","title":{"rendered":"We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do fashion detectives<\/a> get promoted from the rank-and-file of the fashion police?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do fashion detectives get promoted from the rank-and-file of the fashion police?<\/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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-x6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1632,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/fashion-police","url_meta":{"origin":2052,"position":0},"title":"Fashion Police","author":"Gil","date":"August 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Moreover, the Economist's arts mag's blog (?), has a good post on Sen. 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