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Because of crap like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, it does engender wildly entertaining posts from folks who actually do <\/i>take the self-sacrificing risk of watching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because of crap like this. 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