{"id":320,"date":"2004-08-12T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=320"},"modified":"2006-02-07T07:33:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T12:33:41","slug":"let-me-get-this-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/let-me-get-this-straight","title":{"rendered":"Let me get this straight . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, if I vote for a gay man for governor<\/a>, does that make me gay?<\/p>\n

Bonus question: If I buy that TV stand<\/a> I was looking at over at Crate & Barrel<\/a>, does THAT make me gay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, if I vote for a gay man for governor, does that make me gay? Bonus question: If I buy that TV stand I was looking at over at Crate & Barrel, does THAT make me gay?<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-implicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-5a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":727,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/phil-simms-is-not-gay","url_meta":{"origin":320,"position":0},"title":"Phil Simms is NOT gay","author":"Gil","date":"November 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, you'd have a hard time proving that if you read this page. 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