{"id":3839,"date":"2009-04-25T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2009-04-25T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:27:58","slug":"adding-insult-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/adding-insult-to-injury","title":{"rendered":"Adding Insult to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that shooting-rampage at a town council meeting in Kirkwood, MO (residence of the official VM brother) last year? Todd Smith, a reporter covering the meeting for the <em>Suburban Journals<\/em>, took a bullet in the hand that night. Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.riverfronttimes.com\/dailyrft\/2009\/04\/suburban_journals_fires_reporter_who_took_bullet_during_kirkwood_massacre.php\" target=\"_blank\">the paper laid him off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Budget cuts, y&#8217;know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that shooting-rampage at a town council meeting in Kirkwood, MO (residence of the official VM brother) last year? Todd Smith, a reporter covering the meeting for the Suburban Journals, took a bullet in the hand that night. Last week, the paper laid him off. Budget cuts, y&#8217;know?<\/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":[1],"tags":[665],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-todd-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ZV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6123,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pentaxplosion","url_meta":{"origin":3839,"position":0},"title":"Pentaxplosion","author":"Gil","date":"September 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"By Todd McLellan, via Accidental Mysteries","rel":"","context":"In \"Todd McLellan\"","block_context":{"text":"Todd McLellan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tag\/todd-mclellan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/toddmclellan.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2796,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-make-my-heart-stipple","url_meta":{"origin":3839,"position":1},"title":"You make my heart stipple","author":"Gil","date":"October 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This WSJ article on Mitch \"Wild Thing\" Williams' post-baseball career is entertaining, especially when he calls out Paul Newman. 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