{"id":4120,"date":"2009-06-24T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2009-06-24T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:03:57","slug":"worse-than-ezra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/worse-than-ezra","title":{"rendered":"Worse than Ezra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahoy, ahoy, dear readers! I’m way too busy reading pharmaco financials and analyst reports to spend much time blogging. Updates will be pretty light until July 4thish. (Of course<\/em> there’ll be an Unrequired Reading<\/a> this Friday! Don’t be silly!)<\/p>\n

Just so you get your fix, the 0-fer of the week is . . . Ezra Pound<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Now I gotta get back to work. Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahoy, ahoy, dear readers! I’m way too busy reading pharmaco financials and analyst reports to spend much time blogging. Updates will be pretty light until July 4thish. (Of course there’ll be an Unrequired Reading this Friday! Don’t be silly!) Just so you get your fix, the 0-fer of the week is . . . Ezra … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Worse than Ezra”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[568,4],"tags":[749],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-0-fer","category-literature","tag-ezra-pound"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-14s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4136,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-of-the-week-grass-unfed-edition","url_meta":{"origin":4120,"position":0},"title":"0-fer of the week: Grass-unfed edition","author":"Gil","date":"July 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In keeping with last week's 0-fer of Ezra Pound (and as inspired tangentially by this Bourgeois Surrender post), I offer up my latest literary 0-fer: Gunter Grass! 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