{"id":447,"date":"2005-01-19T21:15:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=447"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:45:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:45:43","slug":"holy-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/holy-crap","title":{"rendered":"Holy Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks late, but mind-blowing messed-up-edness from some guy’s family Christmas get-together<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks late, but mind-blowing messed-up-edness from some guy’s family Christmas get-together.<\/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-447","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-7d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":799,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/holy-crap-part-8-million","url_meta":{"origin":447,"position":0},"title":"Holy Crap, Part 8 million","author":"Gil","date":"January 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember the case of Cory Maye that I linked to a few weeks ago? 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