{"id":2204,"date":"2008-08-04T06:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2008-08-04T06:01:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:01:33","slug":"what-it-is-8408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-8408","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 8\/4\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What I&#8217;m reading:<\/em> Finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0971865906?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0971865906\">A Reader&#8217;s Manifesto<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0971865906\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, by B.R. Myers, and <a href=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/jameshen10931093.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Beast in the Jungle<\/a>, by Henry James. Started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1560979216?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1560979216\">Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1560979216\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, by Blake Bell.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m listening to:<\/em> Just shuffling on my iPod, while I figure out how to reinstall my Sirius radio in my car in a way that will prevent my dog from chewing through the antenna cable again.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m watching:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0187664\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaced<\/a>, some Angels-Yankees, and . . . the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QXDJLI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000QXDJLI\">fourth season of The Wire<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QXDJLI\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>! At last!<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m drinking:<\/em> Plymouth G&amp;T.<\/p>\n<p><em>Where I&#8217;m going:<\/em> Nowhere, although I&#8217;m considering going up to Saratoga in two weeks to see <a href=\"http:\/\/gillianwelch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gillian Welch<\/a> play the folk festival.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m happy about:<\/em> Getting to see my brother last week, and getting out to that Bruce show.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m sad about:<\/em> The weird noise coming out of the water heater downstairs. Especially after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JmJoyuUJj2Q\" target=\"_blank\">that episode of Mythbusters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m pondering:<\/em> Lots of big, intricate sentences by Henry James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;m reading: Finished A Reader&#8217;s Manifesto, by B.R. Myers, and The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James. Started Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, by Blake Bell. What I&#8217;m listening to: Just shuffling on my iPod, while I figure out how to reinstall my Sirius radio in my car in a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-8408\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What It Is: 8\/4\/08&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2204","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-zy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}