{"id":2102,"date":"2008-06-16T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2008-06-16T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:11:52","slug":"happy-e-bloomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-e-bloomsday","title":{"rendered":"Happy E-Bloomsday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I almost forgot! Here’s a 21st century Happy Bloomsday greeting, courtesy of my Kindle<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

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I almost forgot! Here’s a 21st century Happy Bloomsday greeting, courtesy of my Kindle!<\/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":[4],"tags":[201,127,202],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-james-joyce","tag-kindle","tag-ulysses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-xU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2023,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kin-and-kindle","url_meta":{"origin":2102,"position":0},"title":"Kin and Kindle","author":"Gil","date":"April 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time, Robin Williams said, \"Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have too much money.\" This week I bought a Kindle. It costs $399 (but I had $150 in gift-credit, so I pretended it only cost $250), can download books wirelessly from Amazon, is perfectly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000FI73MA","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3519,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kindleicious","url_meta":{"origin":2102,"position":1},"title":"Kindleicious","author":"Gil","date":"February 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"To celebrate the arrival of my new Kindle (I sold my first-gen model for $270 on Amazon last week), here are a bunch of articles about e-book pricing and why publishers are scared crapless by the example of Apple and iTunes: Kassia Kroszer, who writes wonderfully about this stuff on\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":2104,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kindle-part-1","url_meta":{"origin":2102,"position":2},"title":"Kindle, part 1","author":"Gil","date":"June 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Ahoy, dear readers! I'm awfully busy at the BIO show in San Diego. But rather than leave you without your daily dose of my ramblings, I thought I'd post this e-mail I wrote a pal in response to his query of, \"How do you like your Kindle?\" I have more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000FI73MA","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2068,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-51908","url_meta":{"origin":2102,"position":3},"title":"What It Is: 5\/19\/08","author":"Gil","date":"May 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad, and the first 8 issues of the new Omega the Unknown miniseries, sorta written by Jonathan Lethem, whose prose I've never tried out. I oughtta sample some of his stuff on my Kindle, because I'm that awesome. What I'm listening to: A new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Adventures in Gin"","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Gin","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-gin"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000FI73MA","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2848,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/ill-sit-facing-the-corner-in-a-funny-hat","url_meta":{"origin":2102,"position":4},"title":"I’ll sit facing the corner in a funny hat","author":"Gil","date":"November 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend, I read Benjamin Schwarz's review in the Atlantic of \"Have You Seen . . . ?\" A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, David Thomson's follow-up to his Biographical Dictionary of Film. 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