{"id":148,"date":"2004-02-17T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T14:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=148"},"modified":"2005-12-30T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:47:02","slug":"go-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-ape","title":{"rendered":"Go ape!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love my town. It may not be NYC, but it’s still got some funny shit<\/a> going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love my town. It may not be NYC, but it’s still got some funny shit going on.<\/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":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apes","category-suburbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3469,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-ape-who","url_meta":{"origin":148,"position":0},"title":"The ape who","author":"Gil","date":"February 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a long time since I've had the opportunity to check the \"apes\" box in my list of categories! 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