{"id":674,"date":"2005-10-29T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=674"},"modified":"2005-12-05T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T00:12:25","slug":"well-thats-reassuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/well-thats-reassuring","title":{"rendered":"Well, that’s<\/em> reassuring!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that Iran will only use peaceful<\/em> means<\/a> to “wipe out Israel from the map of the world”! Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that Iran will only use peaceful means to “wipe out Israel from the map of the world”! Whew!<\/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-674","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-aS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":933,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-good-to-be-the-shah","url_meta":{"origin":674,"position":0},"title":"It’s good to be the Shah?","author":"Gil","date":"May 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Human Events runs a long and implausibly candid interview with Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah of Iran, who seems to be campaigning for U.S. backing for a 'peaceful' overthrow of the mullahs. Highlights include: I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m against developing any weapons of mass destruction. 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