{"id":2119,"date":"2008-06-30T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2008-06-30T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T17:08:50","slug":"whoomp-there-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/whoomp-there-it-is","title":{"rendered":"Whoomp! There it is!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 100th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/science\/columnist\/vergano\/2008-06-29-asteroid-anniversary_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">getting your ass flattened by an asteroid<\/a>, Siberia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 100th anniversary of getting your ass flattened by an asteroid, Siberia!<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","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-yb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4341,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-blackoutiversary","url_meta":{"origin":2119,"position":0},"title":"Happy blackoutiversary","author":"Gil","date":"August 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the 6th anniversary of the big-ass northeast blackout, and some website is calling for reminiscences from the event. 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