{"id":355,"date":"2014-03-24T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:08:55","slug":"todays-episode-of-what-were-they-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/24\/todays-episode-of-what-were-they-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Episode of \u201cWhat Were They Thinking?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I undertook to convert Glenn Fleishman\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/the-magazine.org\/book\" title=\"The Magazine: The Book (Year One)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Magazine: The Book<\/em><\/a> from a beautifully laid out hardcover book into something that an EPUB reader could handle. 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