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This is our hi-tech, financially savvy way of investing for one important element of our future\u2014the next trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More accurately, a coining jar. This is our hi-tech, financially savvy way of investing for one important element of our future\u2014the next trip.<\/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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8SCfl-1O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":524,"url":"https:\/\/pbw.id.au\/blog\/2018\/05\/consciousness-time-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":0},"title":"Consciousness &#038; Time: Part 2","author":"admin","date":"Wed 9th May '18","format":false,"excerpt":"A Little Consciousness Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. 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