{"id":5814,"date":"2010-12-24T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2010-12-23T21:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T01:17:21","slug":"unrequired-reading-dec-24-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-24-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 24, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Unrequired Reading for you this week, dear readers! I&#8217;m on vacation! I&#8217;ll have an extra-special edition for you next week, to close out 2010!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay. Just to give you <em>some<\/em>thing, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/24\/arts\/television\/24yule.html\" target=\"_blank\">3-D Yule Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Unrequired Reading for you this week, dear readers! I&#8217;m on vacation! I&#8217;ll have an extra-special edition for you next week, to close out 2010! 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