{"id":39,"date":"2003-08-27T08:08:44","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=39"},"modified":"2005-12-04T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:00:15","slug":"the-raw-and-the-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-raw-and-the-stupid","title":{"rendered":"The Raw and the Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the bartender at the Hi Life Bar &#038; Grill actually convinced me to partake of &#8220;half-price sushi,&#8221; after plying me with a G&#038;T that owed FAR more to the G than the T.<\/p>\n<p>I told her, &#8220;I&#8217;ve made it a practice never to eat any raw food when it&#8217;s offered for half price.&#8221; But she DID have that Art School Girl of Doom look that I&#8217;ve always had a weakness for, so I relented and had two pieces of tuna sashimi.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m still alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the bartender at the Hi Life Bar &#038; Grill actually convinced me to partake of &#8220;half-price sushi,&#8221; after plying me with a G&#038;T that owed FAR more to the G than the T. I told her, &#8220;I&#8217;ve made it a practice never to eat any raw food when it&#8217;s offered for half price.&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-raw-and-the-stupid\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Raw and the Stupid&#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-39","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-D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2667,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-101308","url_meta":{"origin":39,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 10\/13\/08","author":"Gil","date":"October 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Samaritan, by Richard Price. 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