{"id":211,"date":"2004-04-06T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=211"},"modified":"2005-12-06T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T20:41:43","slug":"no-blood-for-oil-whatever-you-say-mr-hussein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-blood-for-oil-whatever-you-say-mr-hussein","title":{"rendered":"No Blood for Oil? Whatever you say, Mr. Hussein!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought you could only find this<\/a> level of venality from, say, the IOC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought you could only find this level of venality from, say, the IOC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-211","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-3p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rock-the-house","url_meta":{"origin":211,"position":0},"title":"Rock the House","author":"Gil","date":"February 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"From the NY Observer's new article on Chris Rock:A lot of Mr. Rock\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds show is dedicated to the U.S. as he knows it in 2004. 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