{"id":6039,"date":"2011-07-01T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2011-07-01T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T20:41:09","slug":"life-and-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/life-and-times","title":{"rendered":"Life and Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, I wish there was, like, a line in here that says, \u201cAnd these are the moments when you say something, and these are the moments when you don\u2019t,\u201d and it always works that way. Oh, God, it\u2019s never gonna be that simple. I\u2019ll go to my grave and never get it right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n—Bob Mould<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, I wish there was, like, a line in here that says, \u201cAnd these are the moments when you say something, and these are the moments when you don\u2019t,\u201d and it always works that way. Oh, God, it\u2019s never gonna be that simple. I\u2019ll go to my grave and never get it right. —Bob Mould<\/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":[40],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-bob-mould"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1zp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2667,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-101308","url_meta":{"origin":6039,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 10\/13\/08","author":"Gil","date":"October 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Samaritan, by Richard Price. 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