{"id":1846,"date":"2008-01-08T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/show-some-resolve\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:53:37","slug":"show-some-resolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/show-some-resolve","title":{"rendered":"Show some resolve!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops! I was so busy getting the Jan\/Feb issue of my mag together that I almost missed my New Year&#8217;s Resolution of making sure I post at least one item every day!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I came across this neat writeup about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_15767_third-reich-fortune-500-five-popular-brands-nazis-gave-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">companies that worked for\/with Nazi Germany<\/a>. &#8220;Enjoy&#8221;!<br \/>\n(And, yes, I do own a Hugo Boss suit, but it was in clearance, so I got to exert my Jewish stereotype on that one.)<\/p>\n<p>My other resolution is to get back to only drinking water, black coffee or gin. I slipped up and had a Dr. Pepper a few days ago, and Amy broke out a bottle of wine Saturday night, but I&#8217;m sticking with it pretty well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops! I was so busy getting the Jan\/Feb issue of my mag together that I almost missed my New Year&#8217;s Resolution of making sure I post at least one item every day! Fortunately, I came across this neat writeup about companies that worked for\/with Nazi Germany. &#8220;Enjoy&#8221;! (And, yes, I do own a Hugo Boss &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/show-some-resolve\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Show some resolve!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[27,12,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-pharmaceuticals","category-politics-explicit","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-tM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":228,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan","url_meta":{"origin":1846,"position":0},"title":"Sudan","author":"Gil","date":"May 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"VM reader Elayne mentioned that there's a resolution in the House of Representatives (H. 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