{"id":231,"date":"2004-05-16T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=231"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T21:13:38","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-joneses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/keeping-up-with-the-joneses","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up with the Joneses"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the best of Jones<\/a>, it was the worst of Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Okay, it was a dumb headline. I’m tired; sue me. And I’m heading up to Boston for a biopharma conference for a couple of days. Au revoir!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the best of Jones, it was the worst of Jones. (Okay, it was a dumb headline. I’m tired; sue me. And I’m heading up to Boston for a biopharma conference for a couple of days. Au revoir!)<\/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-231","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-3J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4143,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-3-2009","url_meta":{"origin":231,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: July 3, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"July 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just because it's a holiday weekend doesn't mean you don't get a fresh serving of links, dear readers! 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