{"id":1187,"date":"2006-11-03T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/now-easier-to-ignore\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:13:13","slug":"now-easier-to-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/now-easier-to-ignore","title":{"rendered":"Now easier to ignore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, kids! <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-archives\/\">An Unrequired Reading archive page!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, kids! 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Long-ass article on the design side of Apple. * * * There's a western country where they still sell cassette tapes? * * * Fake your way through the NBA playoffs. * * * Dan Drezner writes about outsourcing, and gets a lot of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Gin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Gin","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-gin"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5826,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-december-31-2010","url_meta":{"origin":1187,"position":2},"title":"Unrequired Reading: December 31, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"December 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year's Eve, dear readers! Welcome to the final installment of Unrequired Reading! That's right! Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! This feature is O-V-E-R! 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