{"id":446,"date":"2005-01-20T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=446"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:45:11","slug":"the-ground-beneath-her-feet-was-bad-but-not-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-ground-beneath-her-feet-was-bad-but-not-that-bad","title":{"rendered":"The Ground Beneath Her Feet<\/em> was bad, but not that<\/em> bad . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember, kids: There’s a difference between a state sponsoring assassination, and a head of state inciting<\/a> assassination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember, kids: There’s a difference between a state sponsoring assassination, and a head of state inciting assassination.<\/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-446","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-7c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":679,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday","url_meta":{"origin":446,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday!","author":"Gil","date":"October 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the wall calendar in my office, Monday was \"UN Day\"! 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Drone warfare came up in my podcast interview with Ron Rosenbaum, and will again in next week's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}