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You should score yourself an Ambrosiaburger at Nepenthe<\/a> someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You should score yourself an Ambrosiaburger at Nepenthe someday.<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-e6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":921,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/someday-only-meth-users-wont-be-congested","url_meta":{"origin":874,"position":0},"title":"Someday, only meth users won’t be congested","author":"Gil","date":"April 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The true cost of the War on Drugs was the 3 minutes of my life that were wasted in CVS on my lunch break when I bought some decongestant. 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