{"id":1609,"date":"2007-07-30T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bad-day-for-old-white-guys\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T20:13:20","slug":"bad-day-for-old-white-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bad-day-for-old-white-guys","title":{"rendered":"Bad day for old white guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

I call bullshit if you say your deadpool included the trifecta of Ingmar Bergman<\/a>, Tom Snyder<\/a> and Bill Walsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I call bullshit if you say your deadpool included the trifecta of Ingmar Bergman, Tom Snyder and Bill Walsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","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-pX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/land-of-pleasant-living-part-1","url_meta":{"origin":1609,"position":0},"title":"Land of Pleasant Living, part 1","author":"Gil","date":"July 27, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a week since I got back, but I've been way too busy to write about my mini-vacation to San Diego (7\/16-7\/20). 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