{"id":1172,"date":"2006-10-27T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/maybe-its-something-in-the-vegemite\/"},"modified":"2006-10-27T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T13:12:59","slug":"maybe-its-something-in-the-vegemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/maybe-its-something-in-the-vegemite","title":{"rendered":"Maybe it’s something in the Vegemite"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Australia, even the Muslim clerics are rowdy mo’fo’s<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Australia, even the Muslim clerics are rowdy mo’fo’s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-iU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":623,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-goes-on-3","url_meta":{"origin":1172,"position":0},"title":"What Goes On","author":"Gil","date":"August 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, gentlereader! Sorry to be absent for a while (except for those little goofy posts). I've been in a little bit of a writing-malaise lately, taking a mini-summer break.I've also been exercising for the first time in forever. The upside is that I'm feeling a bazillion times better, even though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5737,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-12-2010-3","url_meta":{"origin":1172,"position":1},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 12, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"November 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry I haven't done much non-Unrequired Reading posting lately. I've been kinda busy with work, but also back to thinking about writing and other projects. Anyway, enjoy this week's links. 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