{"id":2228,"date":"2008-08-09T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2008-08-09T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:33:40","slug":"good-night-sweet-mr-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-mr-3000","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, Sweet Mr. 3000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Mac died last night<\/a> at the age of 50. We’ll probably watch Bad(der) Santa<\/a> tonight in his memory.<\/p>\n

Longtime movie & TV producer Bernie Brillstein<\/a> died Thursday.<\/p>\n

So Bernie Kopell<\/a> better keep a low profile, is all I’m saying. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bernie Mac died last night at the age of 50. We’ll probably watch Bad(der) Santa tonight in his memory. Longtime movie & TV producer Bernie Brillstein died Thursday. So Bernie Kopell better keep a low profile, is all I’m saying. . .<\/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":[254,255,253],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bernie-brillstein","tag-bernie-kopell","tag-bernie-mac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-zW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3229,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-16-2009","url_meta":{"origin":2228,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 16, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"January 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Baby, it's cold outside! 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