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A friend gave me this boot for my broken leg <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend gave me this boot for my broken leg<\/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-2674","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-H8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/01\/police-made-me-tie-up-my-car-with-string-before-they-would-let-me-drive-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":2674,"position":0},"title":"Police Made Me Tie Up My Car With String Before They Would Let Me Drive It","author":"taxicle","date":"January 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"My car is pretty basic I know. 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