{"id":866,"date":"2006-03-09T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wedding-update\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T03:21:04","slug":"wedding-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wedding-update","title":{"rendered":"Wedding update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an ugly\/bumpy flight, but we made it into New Orleans! Thanks to benzodiazepines, I was just fine!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I blistered through the book I brought along with me (Charles Portis&#8217; Norwood), and neither of the others I brought for the trip are appealing to me right now (Henry Miller&#8217;s <em>Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch<\/em> and <em>Richard III<\/em> (I inadvertently grabbed this instead of <em>Richard II<\/em>, which is an even dumber move than messing up the Dermot Mulroney \/ Dylan McDermott axis)), so I may need to pick up some other reading material while I&#8217;m here.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, most people don&#8217;t spend the days before their weddings worried about book selection, but we seem to have everything under control: paperwork gets filed tomorrow, DJ gets his musical &#8220;guide&#8221; in the afternoon (along with a stack of CDs that we want to use), tux pickup is on Saturday, and public drunkenness is scheduled for Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>My brother plans on shooting video of the wedding and posting it pretty close to live (depending on the wireless setup at the venue). I promise that I will have NOTHING to do with getting that set up. But it&#8217;ll likely show up on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an ugly\/bumpy flight, but we made it into New Orleans! Thanks to benzodiazepines, I was just fine! Unfortunately, I blistered through the book I brought along with me (Charles Portis&#8217; Norwood), and neither of the others I brought for the trip are appealing to me right now (Henry Miller&#8217;s Big Sur and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wedding-update\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wedding update&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","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-dY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5535,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-august-13-2010","url_meta":{"origin":866,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: August 13, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"August 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I may be questioning\/reconsidering what I'm writing and why, but that doesn't mean I can't share some fun\/awesome links with you, dear readers! 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