{"id":831,"date":"2006-02-06T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T12:37:17","slug":"question-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-week","title":{"rendered":"Question of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to Howard Stern honor Grandpa Al Lewis this morning. He contended that Grandpa should&#8217;ve gotten co-billing with Betty Friedan on the front page of the NYTimes. He mentioned that the Munsters was the greatest TV show of all time.<\/p>\n<p>I, on the other hand, was much more of an Addams Family fan. I have no idea if we can draw conclusions about someone&#8217;s character from that, the way fans of the Three Stooges are qualitatively different than Marx Bros. fans.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m putting it to you, dear reader! Which is it? The Munsters or the Addams Family? And why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to Howard Stern honor Grandpa Al Lewis this morning. He contended that Grandpa should&#8217;ve gotten co-billing with Betty Friedan on the front page of the NYTimes. He mentioned that the Munsters was the greatest TV show of all time. I, on the other hand, was much more of an Addams Family fan. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/question-of-the-week\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Question of the week&#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-831","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-dp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2817,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cara-mia","url_meta":{"origin":831,"position":0},"title":"Cara mia!","author":"Gil","date":"October 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of Halloween, Amazon is selling the Complete Addams Family TV series DVDs today for $26.99. 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