{"id":2901,"date":"2008-11-14T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2008-11-13T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T02:59:05","slug":"unrequired-reading-nov-14-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-14-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 14, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for another roundup of oddball links, dear readers! Just click more!<\/p>\n

From the Batter Blaster to Rocket Balls<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Yarr! Movie-time<\/a>, mateys!<\/p>\n

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The former Jane Galt on saving the rust belt<\/a>. (Of course, it’s not just the Big 3<\/span> 2.5<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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The Lien-ing Tower of Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bashar, you got some ‘splainin’ to do<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

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Allegedly, Masa is worth every penny<\/a>. Even if you have to eat out of the chef’s hand.<\/p>\n

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The Internet sure is, um, strange<\/a>. (Thanks (?), Mitch.)<\/p>\n

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Or you can skip all this stuff and read Michael Lewis’ lengthy take on the collapse of Wall Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time for another roundup of oddball links, dear readers! Just click more!<\/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":[25,27,17],"tags":[437,438,439,436],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-big-business","category-politics-explicit","tag-bashar-assad","tag-megan-mcardle","tag-michael-lewis","tag-santiago-calatrava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-KN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":742,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/duke-goes-gonzo","url_meta":{"origin":2901,"position":0},"title":"Duke Goes Gonzo","author":"Gil","date":"December 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry about the lack of updates, witticisms, etc., dear readers. I've been swamped with work on the year-end issue of the magazine and taking care of wedding details, while Amy & I have been adjusting to our new living-in-sin work schedules. I oughtta be back on track in a week\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","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=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}