{"id":444,"date":"2005-01-23T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T00:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=444"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:43:19","slug":"betcha-carnac-didnt-see-this-one-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/betcha-carnac-didnt-see-this-one-coming","title":{"rendered":"Betcha Carnac didn&#8217;t see <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">this<\/span> one coming . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Carson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/01\/23\/carson.obit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">RIP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Carson, RIP.<\/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-444","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-7a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1248,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-season","url_meta":{"origin":444,"position":0},"title":"Question of the Season","author":"Gil","date":"December 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I headed into NYC last night after work to pick up Amy after her office's Christmas party. 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