{"id":652,"date":"2005-09-15T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=652"},"modified":"2005-12-05T21:57:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T02:57:34","slug":"what-do-you-mean-by-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-do-you-mean-by-that","title":{"rendered":"What do you mean by that?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been watching any of the Senate confirmation hearings<\/a> for John Roberts’ Supreme Court nominiation, but Dahlia Lithwick’s writeup about it yesterday<\/a> makes me wonder if Roberts would pass a Turing Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been watching any of the Senate confirmation hearings for John Roberts’ Supreme Court nominiation, but Dahlia Lithwick’s writeup about it yesterday makes me wonder if Roberts would pass a Turing Test.<\/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-652","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-aw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13295,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-keiler-roberts","url_meta":{"origin":652,"position":0},"title":"COVID Check-In with Keiler Roberts","author":"Gil","date":"May 2, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Keiler Roberts Cartoonist Keiler Roberts checks in from Chicago. 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