{"id":247,"date":"2004-05-01T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=247"},"modified":"2005-12-31T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T20:53:09","slug":"triumphalist-self-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/triumphalist-self-pity","title":{"rendered":"“Triumphalist Self-Pity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British are so much better at ripping idiots apart<\/a>, as this review of a book on Orwell & Hitchens proves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The British are so much better at ripping idiots apart, as this review of a book on Orwell & Hitchens proves.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":255,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/toss-up","url_meta":{"origin":247,"position":0},"title":"Toss-Up","author":"Gil","date":"June 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've never watched a movie or read a book by Michael Moore. 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