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Build your own Lionel Richie head<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My girlfriend thinks we should follow this process to build our own Christopher Hitchens head, but I’m afraid that it’d have its own gravity field and destroy the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Build your own Lionel Richie head. My girlfriend thinks we should follow this process to build our own Christopher Hitchens head, but I’m afraid that it’d have its own gravity field and destroy the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-420","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-6M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1522,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-cant-build-a-house-on-anger","url_meta":{"origin":420,"position":0},"title":"You can’t build a house on anger","author":"Gil","date":"May 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Capehart of the WaPost visited New Orleans expecting to find anger and resentment: And then I got my feet on the ground in New Orleans. 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