{"id":3251,"date":"2009-01-15T05:39:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T10:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2009-01-15T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T10:41:10","slug":"frowns-everyone-frowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/frowns-everyone-frowns","title":{"rendered":"Frowns, Everyone! Frowns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Montalban died yesterday at the age of 88<\/a>. Patrick McGoohan also died, at 80<\/a>. (I nearly named this post, Hello, Number Deep-Six<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Montalban died yesterday at the age of 88. Patrick McGoohan also died, at 80. 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