{"id":544,"date":"2005-05-29T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=544"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:43:55","slug":"hell-is-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hell-is-people","title":{"rendered":"Hell is People<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

P.J. O’Rourke on the need to tax celebrity<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“America’s media and entertainment industry has a gross (as it were) revenue of $316.8 billion a year. If we subtract the income derived from worthy journalism and the publishing of serious books, that leaves $316.8 billion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P.J. O’Rourke on the need to tax celebrity: “America’s media and entertainment industry has a gross (as it were) revenue of $316.8 billion a year. If we subtract the income derived from worthy journalism and the publishing of serious books, that leaves $316.8 billion.”<\/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-544","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-8M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1054,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-they-said-id-never-amount-to-anything","url_meta":{"origin":544,"position":0},"title":"And they said I’d never amount to anything","author":"Gil","date":"July 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm interviewing a pair of companies this morning for an article in my September issue. 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