{"id":97,"date":"2003-11-04T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T19:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-12-04T11:02:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T16:02:30","slug":"note-from-teheran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/note-from-teheran","title":{"rendered":"Note from Teheran"},"content":{"rendered":"

A grad-school buddy of mine, writing pseudonymously, offers this column<\/a> in the Iranian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A grad-school buddy of mine, writing pseudonymously, offers this column in the Iranian.<\/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-97","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-1z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/allergic-to-freedom","url_meta":{"origin":97,"position":0},"title":"Allergic to Freedom","author":"Gil","date":"November 15, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"My buddy in Teheran, \"H. 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