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Tickled to be the 2,659th funder on @BackerKit for The Thunderbirds Co-operative.. | Thx @modiphius<\/a>! https:\/\/the-thunderbirds-co-operative-board-game-by-matt-l.backerkit.com\/hosted_preorders\/backers\/2583064<\/a><\/p>\n

View on Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tickled to be the 2,659th funder on @BackerKit for The Thunderbirds Co-operative.. | Thx @modiphius! https:\/\/the-thunderbirds-co-operative-board-game-by-matt-l.backerkit.com\/hosted_preorders\/backers\/2583064 View on Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-51668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","tag-tweet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130200,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/rip-sylvia-anderson.html","url_meta":{"origin":51668,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Sylvia Anderson","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Mar-16 9:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Anderson co-created Thunderbirds (among a number of properties) with her husband, Gerry Anderson, who passed away in 2012. 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