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I had to cancel my press trip\/mini-vacation to Puerto Rico, unfortunately, out of fear that I&#8217;d rupture my left eardrum from the change in air pressure on the plane. I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-like-you-care\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update (Like you care)&#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-46","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-K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1473,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/road-trip","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":0},"title":"Road trip!","author":"Gil","date":"April 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, it's not much of a trip: we have a conference in NYC this week, so I'll be staying at a little hotel near Times Square for the next couple of nights. 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