{"id":2071,"date":"2008-05-23T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2008-05-23T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T14:21:44","slug":"a-brooklyn-accent-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-brooklyn-accent-okay","title":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn accent, okay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy 125th birthday, Brooklyn Bridge<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s my post from last September about walking across the bridge with my pal Mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy 125th birthday, Brooklyn Bridge! Here’s my post from last September about walking across the bridge with my pal Mark.<\/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":[19],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-issues","tag-brooklyn-bridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-xp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1669,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-obscure-as-that-heaven-of-the-jews","url_meta":{"origin":2071,"position":0},"title":"“And obscure as that heaven of the Jews”","author":"Gil","date":"September 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"(There's a slideshow. 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