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Apparently, while I was downstairs writing, David Cronenberg<\/a> was setting up a shot in my kitchen:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We did<\/em> tell Mugwump to be here around 7, but I hope he knows he has to go outside if he wants to smoke:<\/p>\n

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

Apparently, while I was downstairs writing, David Cronenberg was setting up a shot in my kitchen: We did tell Mugwump to be here around 7, but I hope he knows he has to go outside if he wants to smoke:<\/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":[813],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-cronenberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-186","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5597,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sept-17-2010","url_meta":{"origin":4346,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Sept. 17, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"September 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't lie to me; I know you've been waiting for this collection of links all week! 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