{"id":134391,"date":"2017-08-23T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-circle-of-life-2.html"},"modified":"2017-08-23T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:10:31","slug":"the-circle-of-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-circle-of-life-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The Circle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. Yeah, this sounds like something I would do. Or at least talk about doing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/dying-wish\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4aY5ujsnoVJ-5G51tvgt_R7lxNiXcqJGUJy18-qCpaoxSvNqxo-26YV-9BdbOR7gfKRqM0pVPZoenZw-RzSgGj0JTsse3s9WIKazqtd9PQ=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/dying-wish\">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal &#8211; Dying Wish<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHey geeks of Houston! We&#8217;ve sold more than half of the discounted student tickets for BAHFest Houston! Buy soon if you wanna see me, Jorge Cham, Phil Plait, and lady-who-went-to-freakin-space Nicole Stott. Discuss this comic in the forum. August 20, 2017. Geeks! Just about 10 days to get in your &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/edbmGxAP4ed\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. Yeah, this sounds like something I would do. Or at least talk about doing. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal &#8211; Dying Wish Hey geeks of Houston! We&#8217;ve sold more than half of the discounted student tickets for BAHFest Houston! Buy soon if you wanna see me, Jorge Cham, Phil Plait, and lady-who-went-to-freakin-space Nicole Stott. 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