{"id":513,"date":"2005-03-07T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=513"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:29:31","slug":"confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/confession","title":{"rendered":"Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy The Brooding Persian<\/a> is on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My buddy The Brooding Persian is on fire.<\/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-513","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-8h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":142,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-the-ground-in-iran","url_meta":{"origin":513,"position":0},"title":"On the ground in Iran","author":"Gil","date":"February 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"My pseudonymous buddy in Iran now has a blog! 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