{"id":450,"date":"2005-01-17T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T00:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=450"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:50:16","slug":"freedom-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/freedom-of-choice","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a $50 giftcard to Borders from one of my birthday attendees, so I lit over to the local store and spent a little.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of MLK&#8217;s day, I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000006NAK\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">When Negroes Walked the Earth<\/a>, a blues record by Otis Taylor, whom you should be listening to (get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000063T4W\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Respect the Dead<\/a>, to start out).<\/p>\n<p>After that, I was kinda stuck. There were a bazillion things I thought about buying, but none that jumped out at me as something that would be <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">perfectly<\/span> fulfilling. So I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0812973038\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a $50 giftcard to Borders from one of my birthday attendees, so I lit over to the local store and spent a little. In honor of MLK&#8217;s day, I bought When Negroes Walked the Earth, a blues record by Otis Taylor, whom you should be listening to (get Respect the Dead, to start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/freedom-of-choice\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freedom of Choice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-450","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-7g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1977,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-pheasants-are-revolting","url_meta":{"origin":450,"position":0},"title":"The pheasants are revolting","author":"Gil","date":"March 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a Flip Video Ultra last week, so expect more dumb movie-clips like this one of me and Rufus fighting over a toy we bought him 10 minutes earlier: Or you can downoad it here.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000V1PXMI","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6275,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-edition","url_meta":{"origin":450,"position":1},"title":"Who Am I? 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