{"id":5902,"date":"2011-02-01T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2011-02-01T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:17:24","slug":"who-am-i-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-11","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who did a little happy dance a few months ago when he found out that a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606994093?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=virtualmemories-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1606994093\">Lorenzo Mattotti book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1606994093\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (192 pages!) was coming out in 2011. I&#8217;m also the guy who did a little happy dance yesterday when he got notification that the book had shipped from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m the guy who still does little happy dances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who did a little happy dance a few months ago when he found out that a new Lorenzo Mattotti book (192 pages!) was coming out in 2011. I&#8217;m also the guy who did a little happy dance yesterday when he got notification that the book had shipped from Amazon. So, I&#8217;m the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Am I?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[26],"tags":[1224],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-lorenzo-mattotti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1xc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8820,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-120-laboratory-of-imagination","url_meta":{"origin":5902,"position":0},"title":"Episode 120 &#8211; Laboratory of Imagination","author":"Gil","date":"June 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Lorenzo Mattotti - Laboratory of Imagination \"In my work, I always try to arrive at a new level of capacity. 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