{"id":880,"date":"2006-03-21T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dhimmiwit\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T07:30:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T12:30:01","slug":"dhimmiwit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dhimmiwit","title":{"rendered":"Dhimmiwit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neat post by Vodkapundit, speculating on Russia’s over-strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neat post by Vodkapundit, speculating on Russia’s over-strategy.<\/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-880","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-ec","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":666,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-on-nola","url_meta":{"origin":880,"position":0},"title":"More On NO,LA","author":"Gil","date":"September 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Great post by Vodkapundit about the city, its demise, and the inherent elements of New Orleans that are contributing to its destruction.After my one semester at Tulane, I thought New Orleans' motto should have been, \"A city where you can get away with murder, as long as it's not a\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3313,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-12609","url_meta":{"origin":880,"position":1},"title":"What It Is: 1\/26\/09","author":"Gil","date":"January 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: The Alcoholic, a boring comic book by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel, and The Hot Rock, by the late, lamented Donald Westlake. 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