{"id":899,"date":"2006-04-01T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cocker-spaniel-tilt\/"},"modified":"2006-04-01T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T22:11:25","slug":"cocker-spaniel-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cocker-spaniel-tilt","title":{"rendered":"Cocker-spaniel tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drudge just linked to this story<\/a> about a, um, voluntary castration dungeon running in North Carolina. I’m really hoping this is an April Fool’s item, because what’s even more bizarre than the existence of said dungeon is the part about how North Carolina has “castration without malice” on its criminal (I almost wrote “penal”) books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drudge just linked to this story about a, um, voluntary castration dungeon running in North Carolina. I’m really hoping this is an April Fool’s item, because what’s even more bizarre than the existence of said dungeon is the part about how North Carolina has “castration without malice” on its criminal (I almost wrote “penal”) books.<\/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-899","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-ev","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2036,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/beer-goggling-at-the-wsj","url_meta":{"origin":899,"position":0},"title":"Beer-goggling at the WSJ","author":"Gil","date":"May 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last November, I wrote about how the Wall Street Journal's infamous headshot illo-style -- which I like to call The Drew Friedmanizer -- had a vested interest in, well, portraying Hilary Clinton a bit unflatteringly: Nowadays, I think they're more concerned about derailing Sen. 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