{"id":2851,"date":"2008-11-05T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2008-11-05T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:05:09","slug":"time-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/time-out","title":{"rendered":"Time out"},"content":{"rendered":"

No posting from me today, dear readers! I’m exhausted\/hungover from last night (we get up at 5 a.m. e.s.t., so we didn’t get a ton of sleep after Obama’s acceptance speech). Maybe I’ll fire up a double feature of Undercover Brother<\/a> and Coming to America<\/a> on the computer, but first, a coworker and I plan to celebrate the election by scoring some lunch over at the Chicken & Rib Crib<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barack on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No posting from me today, dear readers! I’m exhausted\/hungover from last night (we get up at 5 a.m. e.s.t., so we didn’t get a ton of sleep after Obama’s acceptance speech). Maybe I’ll fire up a double feature of Undercover Brother and Coming to America on the computer, but first, a coworker and I plan … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Time out”<\/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":[17],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit","tag-barack-obama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-JZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2840,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-election-edition","url_meta":{"origin":2851,"position":0},"title":"Lost in the Supermarket: Election Edition","author":"Gil","date":"November 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Even Peeps are getting in on the post-racial vibe in America! 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