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Orneryboy<\/a> sums up my feelings toward most jobs I’ve held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orneryboy sums up my feelings toward most jobs I’ve held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":263,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=263","url_meta":{"origin":179,"position":0},"title":"To lighten your day: Torture.","date":"3\/1\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite the comments of a few people up front, this MetaFilter thread about torture holds all kinds of interesting and volatile questions. 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