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I’m gonna have nightmares about this<\/a>. Much creepier than Aibo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m gonna have nightmares about this. Much creepier than Aibo.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","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-Ao","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3952,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rufus-update","url_meta":{"origin":2256,"position":0},"title":"Rufus update","author":"Gil","date":"May 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi, dear readers. 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