{"id":6269,"date":"2012-02-10T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2015-05-23T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T02:02:04","slug":"alexandria-via-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/alexandria-via-st-louis","title":{"rendered":"Alexandria via St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3\">Virtual Memories \u2013 season 2 episode 2<br \/>\nGil Roth &#8211; Burning Libraries<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_838\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6269-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=6269-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_2_Episode_2_-_Burning_libraries.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another month, another podcast! I told you I was trying to keep to some sorta schedule for 2012, so here&#8217;s the latest installment of the Virtual Memories Podcast!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working with both mic placement and amp effects, so I apologize in advance if you&#8217;ll need to turn up the volume a little to listen to it. I really oughtta take a class in this stuff, so I can get the technical aspects down, rather than hashing this stuff out every time.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s another podcast! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: music from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0050VJ29Y?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0050VJ29Y\">Rome<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0050VJ29Y\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, feat. Norah Jones. The Five Books interview with Geoff Dyer can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrowser.com\/interviews\/geoff-dyer-on-unusual-histories?page=full\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcasts\/vms02e02.m4a\">link to the m4a version<\/a>, in case you want the version that has my headshot and all.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 2 episode 2 Gil Roth &#8211; Burning Libraries Another month, another podcast! I told you I was trying to keep to some sorta schedule for 2012, so here&#8217;s the latest installment of the Virtual Memories Podcast! I&#8217;m still working with both mic placement and amp effects, so I apologize in advance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/alexandria-via-st-louis\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alexandria via St. Louis&#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":[1183],"tags":[1236],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1D7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6311,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-good-housekeeping","url_meta":{"origin":6269,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Good Housekeeping","author":"Gil","date":"March 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories - season 2 episode 3 Ann Rivera - Good Housekeeping It's time for a new episode of The Virtual Memories Show! 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