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Enjoy this really freaky story about mind-controlling wasps<\/a>, you sick bastids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enjoy this really freaky story about mind-controlling wasps, you sick bastids.<\/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-837","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\/s4C7K-zombugs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":977,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/scan-and-pan","url_meta":{"origin":837,"position":0},"title":"Scan and Pan","author":"Gil","date":"June 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing that series of posts and links about contemporary fiction, here's a piece in Slate about how book sales are measured and ignored: [Using Bookscan to garner sales numbers] has become popular for a few reasons having to do with the culture of journalism and publishing. 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