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X-Box: So good, you’ll organize a death squad to brutally murder 6 people and a dog for it<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-Box: So good, you’ll organize a death squad to brutally murder 6 people and a dog for it!<\/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-327","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-5h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4396,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/inglourious-roi","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":0},"title":"Inglourious ROI","author":"Gil","date":"August 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"With their \"media empire\" on the verge of collapse, the Weinstein brothers were pulling out all the stops to promote the opening of Inglourious Basterds last week. 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