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Last night, I started reading Underground<\/a>, Haruki Murakami’s collection of interviews of survivors of the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995.<\/p>\n

Today, we find out that there was sarin nerve gas in an roadside bomb\/unexploded shell in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just plain weird, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I started reading Underground, Haruki Murakami’s collection of interviews of survivors of the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. Today, we find out that there was sarin nerve gas in an roadside bomb\/unexploded shell in Iraq. Just plain weird, is what I’m saying.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","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-3H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1671,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/conference-call","url_meta":{"origin":229,"position":0},"title":"Conference Call","author":"Gil","date":"September 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We hosted our big (around 400+ people) pharma-conference & exhibition yesterday, and that's the most nerve-wracking day of my year. 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