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My version of the famous <\/span>saying<\/a> with a hundred fathers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My version of the famous saying with a hundred fathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[515],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-bc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":604,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=604","url_meta":{"origin":694,"position":0},"title":"Intelligence and Politics","date":"November 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Intelligence can let you solve harder problems, but some problems are just resistant, and you get to a point that being smarter isn't going to help you at all, and I think a lot of our problems are like that. 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