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Something’s not kosher here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something’s not kosher here.<\/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-299","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-4P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5059,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sometimes","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes","author":"Gil","date":"March 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't open books at random too often, but I just did, because I'm kinda bored with Shopgirl, and this was the book I was using as a mouse-pad for my new jerry-rigged media center: Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0156717204","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2928,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/compliments-for-fishing","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":1},"title":"Compliments for fishing","author":"Gil","date":"November 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The conference I'm attending here in Atlanta had an opening reception at the Georgia Aquarium last night. 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