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I’m starting to think my garage was an annex for the Museum of Jurassic Technology<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This reel-to-reel unit is one of those early models that was composed of dwarf-star matter, weighing in around 9 trillion tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m starting to think my garage was an annex for the Museum of Jurassic Technology: This reel-to-reel unit is one of those early models that was composed of dwarf-star matter, weighing in around 9 trillion tons.<\/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":[774],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-in-the-garage","tag-museum-of-jurassic-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-15A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4230,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/laser-i-hardly-know-her","url_meta":{"origin":4190,"position":0},"title":"Laser? 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