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Go read Carter Beats the Devil<\/strong><\/em><\/a> right now. It’s great. You’ll love it.<\/p>\n

Or I’ll… um… slap yo’ mama!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Tavis Allison<\/a> for the initial recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go read Carter Beats the Devil right now. It’s great. You’ll love it. Or I’ll… um… slap yo’ mama! Thanks to Tavis Allison for the initial recommendation.<\/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-37","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-B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2232,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-good-rat-try-the-totally-freakin-awesome-rat","url_meta":{"origin":37,"position":0},"title":"“The Good Rat”? 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