{"id":648,"date":"2005-09-18T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=648"},"modified":"2005-12-05T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T02:50:44","slug":"you-call-jihad-i-call-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-call-jihad-i-call-bullshit","title":{"rendered":"You call jihad, I call bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evidently, an ice-cream cone at Burger King offended a Muslim in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Myself, I’m offended by The King’s showboating after his INT against Bledsoe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evidently, an ice-cream cone at Burger King offended a Muslim in the UK. Myself, I’m offended by The King’s showboating after his INT against Bledsoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-as","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":826,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/out-of-toon","url_meta":{"origin":648,"position":0},"title":"Out of Toon","author":"Gil","date":"February 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Comicsreporter reporter (and occasional VM contributor) Tom Spurgeon has a good roundup of posts about the Danish cartoons that goof on Muhammad. 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