{"id":8246,"date":"2014-09-29T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:05:28","slug":"podcast-may-god-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-may-god-remember","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8211; May God Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show: Daniel Goldhagen\u00a0&#8211;<br \/>\nMay God Remember<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2339\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8246-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8246-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The phenomenon of antisemitism in areas where no Jews are present has no parallel, and it shows this is an extremely deeply seated and broad cultural construct, first in Christianity and then in Islam. . . . These notions have and continue to spread antisemitism around the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Daniel Goldhagen on The Virtual Memories Show by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/15167875190\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2947\/15167875190_b54b2f1bb6.jpg?w=440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Daniel Goldhagen on The Virtual Memories Show\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the middle of the High Holidays,\u00a0two Jews sit down in Manhattan to talk about antisemitism! <a href=\"http:\/\/goldhagen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Goldhagen<\/a> joins the show to talk about his\u00a0newest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/031609787X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=031609787X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=NSRNYPG4WZJ3EMUX\">The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=031609787X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. We discuss\u00a0the public expression of antisemitism and why it&#8217;s permitted in so many regions (and why it&#8217;s not in America), how it&#8217;s progressed through\u00a0medieval, modern and global phases, how Jews have been able to survive millennia of ill-treatment, why &#8220;eliminationism&#8221; is a better term than &#8220;genocide&#8221;, and how a guy who writes books on topics like this manages to stay upbeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People in Germany don&#8217;t look at Jews anymore and see devils in human form. That&#8217;s progress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2340\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8246-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8246-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the way, we also talk about the Goldhagen family business, Daniel&#8217;s writing routine\u00a0(which fills me with shame), what it&#8217;s like to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w7cZuhqSzzc\" target=\"_blank\">the first topic that comes up when you search &#8220;genocide&#8221; on YouTube<\/a>, and what\u00a0the man behind The Goldhagen Debate thinks about the adage that there&#8217;s no such thing as bad publicity.<\/p>\n<p>The episode also includes my tribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/dgmyers.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">DG Myers<\/a>, who died\u00a0the previous weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/dgmyers.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Go visit his site<\/a> to learn more about his life, death, and donations you can make in his honor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_37_-_May_God_Remember.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-reading-maketh-a-full-man\" target=\"_blank\">DG Myers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-great-vengeance-and-furious-anger\" target=\"_blank\">Thane Rosenbaum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-re-explaining-hitler\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Rosenbaum (on Hitler)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories\" target=\"_blank\">George Prochnik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-a-place-to-rest\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Raboteau<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-land-of-the-big-sulk\" target=\"_blank\">Hooman Majd<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goldhagen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Jonah Goldhagen<\/a>, a former professor at Harvard University, is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679772685\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0679772685&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=VQ5HHT2FJTYWP2AI\">Hitler&#8217;s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0679772685\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375714170\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375714170&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=WXTVJQFM2QYMXY25\">A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0375714170\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003NHR6VS\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003NHR6VS&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=K5MS2KKG22NIXRQV\">Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B003NHR6VS\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/031609787X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=031609787X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=NSRNYPG4WZJ3EMUX\">The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=031609787X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. His writing has appeared in the <em>New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New Republic,<\/em> and newspapers around the world. There&#8217;s a much more extensive bio <a href=\"http:\/\/goldhagen.com\/biography\" target=\"_blank\">available at his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>First We Take Manhattan<em>\u00a0by Jennifer Warnes (in tribute to DG Myers). The conversation was recorded at Mr. Goldhagen&#8217;s rather echo-y home on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KCXMBES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCXMBES&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. The intro and outro were recorded on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Mr. Goldhagen by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show: Daniel Goldhagen\u00a0&#8211; May God Remember &#8220;The phenomenon of antisemitism in areas where no Jews are present has no parallel, and it shows this is an extremely deeply seated and broad cultural construct, first in Christianity and then in Islam. . . . These notions have and continue to spread antisemitism around the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-may-god-remember\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast &#8211; May God Remember&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1183,17,20],"tags":[2925,2929,2008,2923,2495,2928,2930,2924,129,2932,2926,2931,121,1438,2922,2927],"class_list":["post-8246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-podcasts","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","tag-antisemitism","tag-christopher-peterson","tag-daniel-goldhagen","tag-david-gershom-myers","tag-dg-myers","tag-erich-goldhagen","tag-henry-kissinger","tag-hitlers-willing-executioners","tag-israel","tag-martha-cooley","tag-merchant-of-venice","tag-sarah-williams-goldhagen","tag-shakespeare","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-the-devil-that-never-dies","tag-worse-than-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-290","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10281,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-213-sarah-williams-goldhagen","url_meta":{"origin":8246,"position":0},"title":"Episode 213 &#8211; Sarah Williams Goldhagen","author":"Gil","date":"April 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Virtual Memories Show 213: Sarah Williams Goldhagen \"The built environment is not inert. It's an active agent in the shaping of people's lives.\" Why are our buildings crushing our quality of life? Sarah Williams Goldhagen joins the show to talk about her new book, Welcome to Your World (Harper),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8638,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-112-remainder","url_meta":{"origin":8246,"position":1},"title":"Episode 112 &#8211; Remainder","author":"Gil","date":"March 28, 2015","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Clive James - Remainder \"I should have led a more balanced life, but that's easy to say at the end of things. When you're caught up in what you're doing, it's very hard to be reasonable. And art isn't really made out being reasonable.\" Clive James\u00a0was diagnosed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Football&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Football","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/football"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/clivejames-e1535852544725.jpg?fit=1200%2C940&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/clivejames-e1535852544725.jpg?fit=1200%2C940&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/clivejames-e1535852544725.jpg?fit=1200%2C940&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/clivejames-e1535852544725.jpg?fit=1200%2C940&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/clivejames-e1535852544725.jpg?fit=1200%2C940&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8687,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-116-magic-city","url_meta":{"origin":8246,"position":2},"title":"Episode 116 &#8211; Magic City","author":"Gil","date":"April 27, 2015","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: Thane Rosenbaum - Magic City \"I'm starting to think that the essays, the fiction, the long non-fiction are all coming from the same place, tapping the same resources, the same human experience, the same fears: all the things that built me, built me to write all of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;baseball&quot;","block_context":{"text":"baseball","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/baseball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/thanecrop1.jpg?fit=1200%2C636&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/thanecrop1.jpg?fit=1200%2C636&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/thanecrop1.jpg?fit=1200%2C636&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/thanecrop1.jpg?fit=1200%2C636&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/thanecrop1.jpg?fit=1200%2C636&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10963,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-249-the-guest-list-2017","url_meta":{"origin":8246,"position":3},"title":"Episode 249 &#8211; The Guest List 2017","author":"Gil","date":"December 18, 2017","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2017 It's time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show\u00a0tradition: The Guest List! 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