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<\/a>Here it is test-fit together, after hours of grinding by Ray, James, and Michael.<\/p>\nTomorrow, with luck, we weld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Behold… Here it is test-fit together, after hours of grinding by Ray, James, and Michael. Tomorrow, with luck, we weld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64,"url":"http:\/\/blog.orbswarm.com\/2007\/06\/26\/orbs-a-go-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"Orbs a Go-Go","date":"June 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Lisa, Michael and I have been working on building more orbs. 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