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It must be humiliating to copy a 3,500-year-old rowboat design, only to have yours sink.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must be humiliating to copy a 3,500-year-old rowboat design, only to have yours sink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-england"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-17y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5921,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5921","url_meta":{"origin":4312,"position":0},"title":"A Medical Origin for Norse Monsters?","author":"Chas S. 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