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What’s the point? One of my strange and diple rules is to keep going forward. A class reunion.makes everyone think thst for decades they have been going in the wrong direction. It would also give me a sense of nauseous deja vu to hear all that thirty year old teenage crap again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the point? One of my strange and diple rules is to keep going forward. A class reunion.makes everyone think thst for decades they have been going in the wrong direction. It would also give me a sense of nauseous … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-A6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2247,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2015\/09\/class-is-unavoidable\/","url_meta":{"origin":2238,"position":0},"title":"Class is unavoidable","author":"taxicle","date":"September 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Imagine strangers on a desert island. 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