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The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Misc\/jacob-marley.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Marley\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays,<br \/>\nNews Corpse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something to think about on this holiday from the Ghost of Christmas Past, Jacob Marley, who learned too late that there were more important things than business: &#8220;Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a [&hellip;]<\/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":"","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}},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","tag-christmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1z1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51626,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51626","url_meta":{"origin":6015,"position":0},"title":"Merry Christmas From Bad Santa Trump and Wishes for a Happy Blue Year","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/25\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas in 2021 is the second holiday season that is burdened by the COVID pandemic. 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