{"id":110,"date":"2003-12-06T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=110"},"modified":"2005-12-04T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T17:48:15","slug":"a-sort-of-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-sort-of-homecoming","title":{"rendered":"A Sort of Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in LAX right now, waiting about 90 minutes for my flight back to Newark. This follows 2 hours from Queenstown to Auckland, and 12 hours from Auckland to LA. I&#8217;m one tired little zombie, I tellsya.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, after all my macho adventures of the past two weeks, I busted a tooth eating a muffin during breakfast on the Auckland flight. I mean, seriously: helicopters, bungee-jumps, mountain hikes, drunken Australians, and I get my ass kicked by a blueberry muffin?<\/p>\n<p>Good thing I&#8217;m a new man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in LAX right now, waiting about 90 minutes for my flight back to Newark. This follows 2 hours from Queenstown to Auckland, and 12 hours from Auckland to LA. I&#8217;m one tired little zombie, I tellsya. Moreover, after all my macho adventures of the past two weeks, I busted a tooth eating a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-sort-of-homecoming\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sort of Homecoming&#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-110","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-1M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-were-the-skies-like-when-you-were-young","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":0},"title":"What Were the Skies Like When You Were Young?","author":"Gil","date":"November 21, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm 6 hours away from starting my 15-day trip to New Zealand. 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