{"id":3475,"date":"2009-02-18T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2009-02-18T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T12:50:06","slug":"youre-my-last-hope-bloggi-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/youre-my-last-hope-bloggi-wan","title":{"rendered":"You’re my last hope, Bloggi-Wan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there some reason you’re not<\/em> reading Carrie Fisher’s blog<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Dead Man Blogging<\/a> was the first post I read, after which I said, “Yes, this needs to go in my RSS feed.”<\/p>\n

(Many thanks to Kate Coe @ Deepglamour.net<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there some reason you’re not reading Carrie Fisher’s blog? Dead Man Blogging was the first post I read, after which I said, “Yes, this needs to go in my RSS feed.” (Many thanks to Kate Coe @ Deepglamour.net)<\/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":[17,1],"tags":[562],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit","category-uncategorized","tag-carrie-fisher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-U3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4445,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sept-11-2009","url_meta":{"origin":3475,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Sept. 11, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"September 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Football season's on! 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