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I’m the guy who will go to his grave regretting that, when he bumped into Danny Aiello outside a parking garage on E. 61st St. on Tuesday, he didn’t say, “I loved you in Hudson Hawk<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m the guy who will go to his grave regretting that, when he bumped into Danny Aiello outside a parking garage on E. 61st St. on Tuesday, he didn’t say, “I loved you in Hudson Hawk.”<\/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":[1],"tags":[1350,1351],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-danny-aiello","tag-hudson-hawk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1B6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1645,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/from-the-editor-idiots-alchemy","url_meta":{"origin":6144,"position":0},"title":"From the Editor: Idiot’s Alchemy","author":"Gil","date":"August 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"(Sorry I haven't written much lately, dear readers. 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