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Bought an Unwired prepaid thing today&#8230; just to tide me over for the 5-7 working days (at least) before they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/rather-appropriate-xkcd-internet-connectivity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,114],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-funny","tag-xkcd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-j2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":902,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/xkcd-little-bobby-tables\/","url_meta":{"origin":1180,"position":0},"title":"xkcd &#8211; little Bobby Tables","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-10-10","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's xkcd is just wonderful. 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