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Looks like we finally have the answer to the burning question, “Will we see Chinese democracy before we see Chinese Democracy<\/a>?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like we finally have the answer to the burning question, “Will we see Chinese democracy before we see Chinese Democracy?”<\/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":[394],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guns-n-roses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-patience","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1873,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/democracy-is-awesome","url_meta":{"origin":2740,"position":0},"title":"Democracy is Awesome","author":"Gil","date":"January 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Vote Ham Sandwich.","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1048,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hey-raj-whats-happnin","url_meta":{"origin":2740,"position":1},"title":"Hey, Raj, What’s Happ’nin’?","author":"Gil","date":"July 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"It's long-ass essay day here at VM! 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