{"id":4088,"date":"2020-01-20T22:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T22:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2020-01-20T22:51:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T22:51:49","slug":"expendable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/20\/expendable\/","title":{"rendered":"Expendable"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a colleague comes to relieve you for lunch, and the surgeon says \u201cdon\u2019t hurry back!\u201d<\/p>\n

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When a colleague comes to relieve you for lunch,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-13W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12416,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/d-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":4088,"position":0},"title":"D day","author":"Interloper11","date":"November 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Or S day? 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