{"id":6285,"date":"2012-02-19T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2012-02-19T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T12:23:37","slug":"who-am-i-party-monster-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-party-monster-edition","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? (party monster edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who went to a party last night and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>met a guy who recently interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/boil-gas\" target=\"blank\">William Gass<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>met a guy who read <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/finishing-the-dance\" target=\"blank\">A Dance To The Music Of Time<\/a> three times already, and<\/li>\n<li>drove past the Federal Reserve building in East Rutherford, NJ while listening to the B-52s&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7oPuVAdGkk8\" target=\"blank\">Legal Tender<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s my idea of a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who went to a party last night and met a guy who recently interviewed William Gass, met a guy who read A Dance To The Music Of Time three times already, and drove past the Federal Reserve building in East Rutherford, NJ while listening to the B-52s&#8217; Legal Tender. 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