{"id":3919,"date":"2009-05-10T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T11:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2009-05-10T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T11:50:04","slug":"stop-and-smell-the-timmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/stop-and-smell-the-timmys","title":{"rendered":"Stop and smell the Timmy’s!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on vacation in Toronto, eh? That means no new posts till Tuesday! Meanwhile, have a happy mother’s day, get some Tim Hortons, and chill out, just like Dave Collier<\/a> here:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m on vacation in Toronto, eh? That means no new posts till Tuesday! Meanwhile, have a happy mother’s day, get some Tim Hortons, and chill out, just like Dave Collier here:<\/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":[26,4,30,5],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-literature","category-toronto","category-travel","tag-david-collier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-11d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":962,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/big-sleazy","url_meta":{"origin":3919,"position":0},"title":"Big Sleazy","author":"Gil","date":"May 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Going into this weekend, I wasn't sure if the re-election of Ray Nagin as mayor of New Orleans would be tantamount to Marion Barry's re-election in Washington, DC after being caught smoking crack cocaine. Then the city's member of the House of Representatives got caught on video taking $100,000 in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "New Orleans"","block_context":{"text":"New Orleans","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/new-orleans"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3926,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/oh-canada-you-scamp","url_meta":{"origin":3919,"position":1},"title":"Oh, Canada! You scamp!","author":"Gil","date":"May 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey! It's a little photoset from our Toronto trip last weekend! (Amy has a bunch more great pix, but hasn't processed & posted 'em yet.) Okay. I'm sorry that I picked that one instead of one of my awesome cityscapes, but\u00c2\u00a0 isn't that the best name for a store? Of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Toronto"","block_context":{"text":"Toronto","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/toronto"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3612\/3527503803_e81a91f303.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1650,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/great-green-north","url_meta":{"origin":3919,"position":2},"title":"Great Green North","author":"Gil","date":"September 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We're back from Toronto! And I'm already missing Tim Horton's coffee and donuts! There's plenty to write about, but you may as well traipse through our photos from the trip: mine and Amy's.","rel":"","context":"In "Toronto"","block_context":{"text":"Toronto","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/toronto"},"img":{"alt_text":"Timaaaaaa!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1393\/1312579081_1d767cf670.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3931,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/toront0-fer","url_meta":{"origin":3919,"position":3},"title":"Toront0-fer","author":"Gil","date":"May 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of our mini-vacation to Toronto, this week's literary 0-fer is . . . Margaret Atwood! She was born in Ottawa, but it looks like her formative years were spent in Toronto and I've never read a word she's written! And I have read some work by Robertson Davies\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","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=0141186151","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9675,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-170-chester-brown-nina-bunjevac-wnjpoets-corner","url_meta":{"origin":3919,"position":4},"title":"Episode 170 – Chester Brown & Nina Bunjevac (w\/#NJPoet’s Corner)","author":"Gil","date":"May 30, 2016","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #170: Chester Brown & Nina Bunjevac, plus #NJPoet's Corner \"The Book of Job goes against what people think the Bible is supposed to be saying. It challenges people's views about God and what our relationship is supposed to be with God. No one wants to confront what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninachester2016.jpg?fit=1200%2C854&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninachester2016.jpg?fit=1200%2C854&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninachester2016.jpg?fit=1200%2C854&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninachester2016.jpg?fit=1200%2C854&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninachester2016.jpg?fit=1200%2C854&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1649,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/strange-currency","url_meta":{"origin":3919,"position":5},"title":"Strange Currency","author":"Gil","date":"September 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, early in my dream cycle, I dreamed that the U.S. had introduced the $8 bill back in 2003, but I'd done so much of my shopping online that I didn't notice the new bill till now. More irritatingly, in almost every dream I had for the rest of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Toronto"","block_context":{"text":"Toronto","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/toronto"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/wallofthefuture.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}