{"id":302,"date":"2004-07-03T07:15:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=302"},"modified":"2006-07-04T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T14:32:11","slug":"i-thought-hed-be-the-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-thought-hed-be-the-indian","title":{"rendered":"I thought he&#8217;d be the Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d have some indignation regarding this story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/07\/03\/powell.ymca.ap\/index.html\">Colin Powell&#8217;s singing disco<\/a> at an Asian security meeting in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I marveled over the coincidence of the song &#038; get-up he chose, and their similarity to a friend-of-a-friend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnriegert.com\/vip\/\">award-winning design for a pack of condoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a strange little life, 33 years into it . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d have some indignation regarding this story on Colin Powell&#8217;s singing disco at an Asian security meeting in Jakarta. Instead, I marveled over the coincidence of the song &#038; get-up he chose, and their similarity to a friend-of-a-friend&#8217;s award-winning design for a pack of condoms. It&#8217;s been a strange little life, 33 years &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-thought-hed-be-the-indian\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I thought he&#8217;d be the Indian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-302","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-4S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}