{"id":401,"date":"2004-11-18T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=401"},"modified":"2005-12-30T06:59:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T11:59:05","slug":"elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/elementary","title":{"rendered":"Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think this whole blackmail plot about Gary Sheffield’s wife’s sex-tape with R. Kelly<\/a> is made up. I mean, there’s no way<\/em> the tape is real. Think about it: the tape was supposedly made 10 years ago, but Gary’s wife would’ve been older than 15 back then. QED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this whole blackmail plot about Gary Sheffield’s wife’s sex-tape with R. Kelly is made up. I mean, there’s no way the tape is real. Think about it: the tape was supposedly made 10 years ago, but Gary’s wife would’ve been older than 15 back then. QED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-6t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":220,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/consider-your-sources","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":0},"title":"Consider your sources","author":"Gil","date":"May 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Over on Drudge today, an entry reads Archives: Tape shows Nixon too drunk to speak to British PM....It details a story that, during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, President Nixon was too drunk to have a phone conversation with the British prime minister. 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