{"id":5500,"date":"2010-08-04T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2010-08-04T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:16:57","slug":"a-flawed-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-flawed-business-model","title":{"rendered":"A flawed business model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All this talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-03\/barnes-noble-to-study-options-including-sale-as-riggio-considers-buyout.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &amp; Noble potentially going private<\/a> put me in mind of this great SNL bit about the founding of the company (stick with it):<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/3jn-D67vcaI4GxhAG-_6Qg\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this talk about Barnes &amp; Noble potentially going private put me in mind of this great SNL bit about the founding of the company (stick with it):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[27],"tags":[1100,621,1091,1101],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","tag-barnes-noble","tag-bill-hader","tag-jon-hamm","tag-snl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1qI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1823,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bookseller-bookmaker-whatever","url_meta":{"origin":5500,"position":0},"title":"Bookseller, bookmaker: whatever!","author":"Gil","date":"December 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The most amazing thing to me about this news item isn't that Michael Jackson's face is covered with bandages, nor even that he has custody of three children. 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