{"id":688,"date":"2010-01-16T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:33:18","slug":"9-5-david-sedaris-when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/9-5-david-sedaris-when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"8.5 David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed In Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Kurt Vonnegut for the short-attention-span generation. He always writes about the most dysfunctional details of the members of his family, I would hate to be one of them – but sometimes I feel like maybe I am. :P And he started off skewering me with horror stories of my most extreme phobia… I’ll leave it for you to discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Kurt Vonnegut for the short-attention-span generation. He always writes about the most dysfunctional details of the members of his family, I would hate to be one of them – but sometimes I feel like maybe I am. :P And he started off skewering me with horror stories of my most extreme phobia… I’ll leave … Continue reading 8.5 David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed In Flames<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-b6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":561,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/9-5-rocknrolla\/","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":0},"title":"9.5 RockNRolla","author":"m","date":"September 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"1080p lookin' good. 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