{"id":3842,"date":"2009-04-26T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2009-04-25T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T02:55:03","slug":"this-room-is-a-pig-sty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/this-room-is-a-pig-sty","title":{"rendered":"This room is a pig sty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we all die of Mexican swine flu, read this <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/this-diseased-utopia-10-points-on-swine.html\" target=\"_blank\">theoretical take on urban design and pandemics<\/a> from BLDGBLOG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we all die of Mexican swine flu, read this theoretical take on urban design and pandemics from BLDGBLOG.<\/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":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ZY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":925,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/death-life-of-great-american-urban-theorists","url_meta":{"origin":3842,"position":0},"title":"Death &#038; Life of Great American Urban Theorists","author":"Gil","date":"April 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jane Jacobs died today. 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