{"id":2481,"date":"2008-09-17T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2008-09-17T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:59:31","slug":"newsflash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/newsflash","title":{"rendered":"Newsflash!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book publishing business remains blockbuster-driven, continues slide down crapper<\/a>. Return to what you were doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book publishing business remains blockbuster-driven, continues slide down crapper. Return to what you were doing.<\/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-2481","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-E1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1338,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/quitters-never-win","url_meta":{"origin":2481,"position":0},"title":"Quitters Never Win","author":"Gil","date":"February 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I received the dissolution papers for my old publishing company. 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