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Congrats to Bill Gates<\/a> and Will Leitch<\/a> on the last day at their current jobs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congrats to Bill Gates and Will Leitch on the last day at their current jobs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[27,32],"tags":[215,216],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-sports","tag-bill-gates","tag-will-leitch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-y8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1576,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/how-do-you-say-vista-in-spanish","url_meta":{"origin":2116,"position":0},"title":"How do you say “Vista” in Spanish?","author":"Gil","date":"July 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Carlos Slim has passed Bill Gates as the richest guy in the world. 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