{"id":4746,"date":"2009-12-22T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2009-12-22T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:35:11","slug":"blogbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/blogbreak","title":{"rendered":"Blogbreak!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m taking this week off! I just finished our 430-page year-end issue, so I’m taking a break from everydarnthing! No Unrequired Reading, no wacky literary recommendations, no etc., etc., amen! <\/p>\n

Come back next week for my big-ol’ decade-end post and a special New Year’s edition of Unrequired Reading!<\/p>\n

And have a happy Christmas, my Christian readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m taking this week off! I just finished our 430-page year-end issue, so I’m taking a break from everydarnthing! No Unrequired Reading, no wacky literary recommendations, no etc., etc., amen! Come back next week for my big-ol’ decade-end post and a special New Year’s edition of Unrequired Reading! And have a happy Christmas, my Christian … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Blogbreak!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","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-1ey","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4883,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-29-2010","url_meta":{"origin":4746,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 29, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"January 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeahyeah: first post in a while. 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All you get is this: Come back next week!","rel":"","context":"In \"zoidberg\"","block_context":{"text":"zoidberg","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tag\/zoidberg"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3176,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/meta-unrequired-reading","url_meta":{"origin":4746,"position":3},"title":"Meta-Unrequired Reading","author":"Gil","date":"January 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Kottke offers up his favorite posts of 2008. I only discovered his site recently, and realized it's like my Unrequired Reading section, but every day of the week. So I suck.","rel":"","context":"In \"kottke\"","block_context":{"text":"kottke","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tag\/kottke"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1566,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-29-2007","url_meta":{"origin":4746,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: June 29, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"June 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This issue will be over-and-done soon, dear readers. Till then, have some links. The AV Club offers up 10 directors you didn't know you hated. * * * Wit, wisdom, etc.: Don't eat before yoga. * * * Stossel. Brooks. The smackdown! * * * I read Under the Volcano\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060955228","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4876,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-22-2010","url_meta":{"origin":4746,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 22, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"January 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"No Unrequired Reading for you this week! That's due less to my malaise, and more to my laptop being in the shop. It suffered the hinge-break that first-generation MacBook Air models are prone to (\"so take \/ this broken hinge . . .\"). 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