{"id":208,"date":"2004-04-08T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=208"},"modified":"2005-12-06T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T20:46:47","slug":"my-mother-will-be-so-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/my-mother-will-be-so-proud","title":{"rendered":"My mother will be so proud . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Head Heeb<\/a> has linked to my almost-self-pitying Rwanda piece. As near as I can tell, this is the first link to Virtual Memories that doesn’t come from someone who knows me (blogrolling in our time, for those of you old enough to remember the later days of Spy magazine).<\/p>\n

There was a pretty neat piece on Slate yesterday about the difficulties of reconciliation in the 10 years since the genocide. Evidently, the Tutsis have sorta cornered the market on grief, despite the fact that (hundreds of) thousands of Hutus were also killed during the massacres. Read it yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Head Heeb has linked to my almost-self-pitying Rwanda piece. As near as I can tell, this is the first link to Virtual Memories that doesn’t come from someone who knows me (blogrolling in our time, for those of you old enough to remember the later days of Spy magazine). There was a pretty neat … <\/p>\n

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Oh, and writers can't get expense accounts anymore. I was entertained by its\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":339,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/darfur","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":1},"title":"Darfur","author":"Gil","date":"September 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Skip ahead if you're sick of reading about the genocide in Darfur. Samantha Power wrote a great piece in The New Yorker a few weeks ago about Darfur. Here it is. 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