{"id":3327,"date":"2009-01-28T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2009-02-24T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T23:36:07","slug":"0-fer-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-part-3","title":{"rendered":"0-fer, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2209975\" target=\"_blank\">anything by John Irving<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I could go on with this series forever! Esp. around Nobel time!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never read anything by John Irving, either. (I could go on with this series forever! 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But it was a raging success, so I'm happy. But exhausted.. If you're looking for some weird and fun links, just click \"more\"! Lisa Simpson, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! * *\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics (explicit)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3895,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cinc0-fer-de-mayo","url_meta":{"origin":3327,"position":1},"title":"Cinc0-fer de Mayo","author":"Gil","date":"May 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of \"Drink Corona (or whatever Mexican beer you choose) Day,\" I thought I'd go find some well-regarded Mexican authors whom I've never read a word of. Only having thought up this idea this morning, I decided to dive into the \"canonical appendixes\" of Harold Bloom's Western Canon, since\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;0-fer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1573225142","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4387,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-man-0-fer-all-seasons","url_meta":{"origin":3327,"position":2},"title":"A Man 0-fer All Seasons","author":"Gil","date":"August 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's literary 0-fer is . . . Robert Bolt! (Technically, he's not an 0-fer, since I have seen two movies for which he wrote the screenplays: Lawrence of Arabia and The Mission. 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