{"id":2208,"date":"2008-08-04T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:09:44","slug":"what-else-im-happy-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-else-im-happy-about","title":{"rendered":"What ELSE I’m Happy About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forgot to mention the other<\/em> thing that made me happy this past week: Official VM best pal Ian Kelley just graduated officer candidate school and is now Ensign Kelley! Congrats!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(I wanted to attend the graduation ceremony up in Rhode Island, but that Springsteen show with my brother took priority . . .)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I forgot to mention the other thing that made me happy this past week: Official VM best pal Ian Kelley just graduated officer candidate school and is now Ensign Kelley! Congrats! (I wanted to attend the graduation ceremony up in Rhode Island, but that Springsteen show with my brother took priority . . .)<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","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-zC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7120,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-highest-learning","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Highest Learning","author":"Gil","date":"June 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories - season 3 episode 12 - Highest Learning Your humble(ish) host just made his annual Piraeus pilgrimage to St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, this time to participate in a four-day seminar about Moby Dick . . . and score a great interview! I managed to get legendary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&l=as2&o=1&a=0967967570","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1340,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-stay-classy-san-diego-im-ron-burgundy","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":1},"title":"You stay classy, San Diego. I’m Ron Burgundy?","author":"Gil","date":"February 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We made it back from San Diego, dear readers! My friends' wedding was wonderful and joyous, and I got to embarrass myself when I was called one to do Just One Thing: introduce the new couple. I stood by the gate that led into the reception in the courtyard of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "California"","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/california"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5796,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-10-2010","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":2},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 10, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"December 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Everybody ready for the weekend? I know I am was, but then I got this lousy headcold. Grr! Now enjoy some links! So, um, Phil Collins has world's largest private collection of Alamo memorabilia? * * * I guess this means Gutfest '89 never took place, either. (Why, yes, my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fashion"","block_context":{"text":"Fashion","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/fashion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3817,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/save-our-newspapers","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":3},"title":"Save Our Newspapers!","author":"Gil","date":"April 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":". . . Otherwise, where will we get such awesome journalism as this NYTimes article about how male movie actors are getting fat as they get older? A scene from the new journalistic thriller \u00e2\u20ac\u0153State of Play\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says it all. Jeff Daniels, as the politician George Fergus, squares off with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7575,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/2013-podcast-countdown-1-top-of-the-pods","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":4},"title":"2013 Podcast Countdown: #1 Top of the Pods","author":"Gil","date":"December 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s taken a week, but the Virtual Memories podcast countdown is complete! Our most downloaded episode from 2013 is all about the Great Books! #1 - Highest Learning\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Eva Brann\u00a0discusses her 50-plus years teaching the Great Books curriculum at St. John's College, how the program has changed (and how it hasn't),\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":7590,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-guest-list-2013","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":5},"title":"Podcast: The Guest List: 2013","author":"Gil","date":"December 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 32 - The Guest List: 2013 The year is over! I exceeded my podcast goal of getting a new episode out every other week! And rather than eke out one more interview for the final podcast of the year, I decided to make my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&l=as2&o=1&a=B002VA464S","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}