{"id":491,"date":"2005-02-03T04:57:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=491"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:58:35","slug":"lesson-for-viktor-yuschenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lesson-for-viktor-yuschenko","title":{"rendered":"Lesson for Viktor Yuschenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/02\/03\/georgia.death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">oil heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get oil heat.<\/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-491","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-7V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sure-just-pile-on-the-totalitarian-dictator-when-hes-down","url_meta":{"origin":491,"position":0},"title":"Sure, just pile on the totalitarian dictator when he&#8217;s down. . .","author":"Gil","date":"April 29, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Kofi Annan, feeling the heat: \"If you read the reports, it looks as if the Saddam regime had nothing to do with it. 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