{"id":864,"date":"2006-03-06T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T01:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mind-reading\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T06:20:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T11:20:13","slug":"mind-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mind-reading","title":{"rendered":"Mind reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! I found a reading for my wedding on Sunday! Being all literary and such, it was pretty difficult for me to come up with something good (I&#8217;ll post it sometime after the wedding). In my neurotic way, I felt  pressure to come up with a Really Good Reading. The search reminded me of an article I read once about how difficult real writers find it to do things like write a note for their kids&#8217; schoolteachers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s a Really Good Reading. The friend who&#8217;s going to read it on Sunday tells me she cried when she read it this morning. Amy sez she got choked up, too. Dames. . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! I found a reading for my wedding on Sunday! Being all literary and such, it was pretty difficult for me to come up with something good (I&#8217;ll post it sometime after the wedding). In my neurotic way, I felt pressure to come up with a Really Good Reading. The search reminded me of an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mind-reading\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-wedding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-dW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":871,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-movies","url_meta":{"origin":864,"position":0},"title":"More movies","author":"Gil","date":"March 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Amy & I took a 15-20 mile bike tour of Sonoma wineries today. 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