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I was waiting for a a cluster to start so i &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/somebody-should-blog\/\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxconfau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-dH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2169,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/video-editing-with-free-software\/","url_meta":{"origin":849,"position":0},"title":"Video editing with Free Software","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2010-10-25","format":false,"excerpt":"Way back when, for linux.conf.au coming to Melbourne in 2008, I edited together a promo video for it. 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