{"id":856,"date":"2006-02-25T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/don-not\/"},"modified":"2006-02-25T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T03:17:13","slug":"don-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/don-not","title":{"rendered":"Don Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Knotts died last night<\/a>, at 81. I find it hard to believe he was only in 25 movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the Divine Trash<\/a> doucmentary, Steve Buscemi remarked that he and John Waters should fight it out to see who gets to play the lead in the Don Knotts biopic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Knotts died last night, at 81. I find it hard to believe he was only in 25 movies. In the Divine Trash doucmentary, Steve Buscemi remarked that he and John Waters should fight it out to see who gets to play the lead in the Don Knotts biopic.<\/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-856","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-dO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2375,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/in-a-world","url_meta":{"origin":856,"position":0},"title":"In a world . . .","author":"Gil","date":"September 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":". . . without Don LaFontaine. 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