{"id":3176,"date":"2009-01-03T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2009-01-03T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:32:05","slug":"meta-unrequired-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/meta-unrequired-reading","title":{"rendered":"Meta-Unrequired Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kottke offers up his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/01\/favorite-posts-of-2008\" target=\"_blank\">favorite posts of 2008<\/a>. I only discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\" target=\"_blank\">his site<\/a> recently, and realized it&#8217;s like my Unrequired Reading section, but every day of the week. So I suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kottke offers up his favorite posts of 2008. I only discovered his site recently, and realized it&#8217;s like my Unrequired Reading section, but every day of the week. 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