{"id":2160,"date":"2008-07-29T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/gone-fishin\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:19:45","slug":"gone-fishin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/gone-fishin","title":{"rendered":"Gone fishin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother, our pal Cathi &amp; I are at the shore (Sea Bright)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/l-640-480-4fede5b0-9d08-4260-ad14-4f3aac0fa05c.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/l-640-480-4fede5b0-9d08-4260-ad14-4f3aac0fa05c.jpeg?w=480\" alt=\"photo\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother, our pal Cathi &amp; I are at the shore (Sea Bright)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-yQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2180,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/way-down-in-the-hole","url_meta":{"origin":2160,"position":0},"title":"Way Down in the Hole","author":"Gil","date":"August 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent Tuesday with my brother and his best pal down at Sea Bright, NJ, and environs. 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