{"id":4188,"date":"2009-07-15T09:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2009-07-15T09:11:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:11:23","slug":"make-it-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/make-it-rain","title":{"rendered":"Make it rain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy St. Swithin’s Day<\/a>! And happy birthday to my uncle Harold!<\/p>\n

The picture below has nothing to do with St. Swithin<\/a>, Harold, or 40 days of rain. It’s just a nice pic I took this morning while Ru & I walked around Skyline Lake:<\/p>\n

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Happy St. Swithin’s Day! And happy birthday to my uncle Harold! The picture below has nothing to do with St. Swithin, Harold, or 40 days of rain. It’s just a nice pic I took this morning while Ru & I walked around Skyline Lake:<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4188","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-15y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4870,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/get-well-soon","url_meta":{"origin":4188,"position":0},"title":"Get Well Soon","author":"Gil","date":"January 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the Yale Daily News, Harold Bloom (79) is \"gravely ill\" and has cancelled his seminars for the semester. 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