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  "thread": {
    "id": 728,
    "subject": "A Blount remark",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-03T10:26:32+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-03T10:26:32+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0069@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "damien at ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-03T10:26:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A Blount remark",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I raised the matter of Blount and Australia with my learned friend John\nBangsund <bangsund at pipeline.com.au>\nwho scoured his CD-ROMss, his reference library and his commodious mind for\npossible clews.  He found this:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Edward Blount was a relatively unimportant person (as far as\nAustralia was concerned) in the Colonial Office in the\n1830s. He was in favor of [*gasp*] Catholic Emancipation."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A bias, no doubt, sure to gain favor among people named Gene Wolfe, but\notherwise perhaps not all that salient to *Fifth Head*.\n\nDamien Broderick"
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