{"id":630,"date":"2005-08-13T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=630"},"modified":"2005-12-11T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T16:34:27","slug":"its-a-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-a-digital-world","title":{"rendered":"It’s a digital world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official VM fiancee<\/a> didn’t believe me when I told her that Daryl Hannah’s missing part of a finger. So I looked up “daryl hannah missing finger” and found a page about celebrities missing fingers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The subject arose because of the third paragraph of this Wikipedia entry on Matthew Perry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Perry is missing part of his right middle finger due to a door shutting accident.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t ask me why she was reading about Matthew Perry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official VM fiancee didn’t believe me when I told her that Daryl Hannah’s missing part of a finger. So I looked up “daryl hannah missing finger” and found a page about celebrities missing fingers. The subject arose because of the third paragraph of this Wikipedia entry on Matthew Perry: Perry is missing part of … <\/p>\n

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