{"id":6275,"date":"2012-02-15T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2012-02-15T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:35:08","slug":"who-am-i-the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-edition","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who am I? I’m the guy whose wife bought him The Fran Lebowitz Reader<\/a>\"\" for Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n

I’m also the guy who bought her Simon Doonan’s\u00a0Gay Men Don’t Get Fat<\/a>\"\" for Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who am I? I’m the guy whose wife bought him The Fran Lebowitz Reader for Valentine’s Day. I’m also the guy who bought her Simon Doonan’s\u00a0Gay Men Don’t Get Fat for Valentine’s Day.<\/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":[4],"tags":[1324,951],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-fran-lebowitz","tag-simon-doonan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1Dd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14103,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-413-dw-young","url_meta":{"origin":6275,"position":0},"title":"Episode 413 – DW Young","author":"Gil","date":"December 22, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 413: DW Young \"People have responded very well to The Booksellers in the pandemic moment, because it speaks to an aspect of city living that's been denied us. 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