{"id":475,"date":"2005-02-18T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=475"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:55:31","slug":"no-two-ways-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-two-ways-about-it","title":{"rendered":"No two ways about it . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Superman is a dick<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Superman is a dick.<\/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-475","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-7F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":835,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/from-buttman-to-superman","url_meta":{"origin":475,"position":0},"title":"From Buttman to Superman","author":"Gil","date":"February 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"VM contributor and all-around good guy Tom Spurgeon recently posted a neat review of a Superman comic on his comicsreporter.com site. 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