{"id":327495,"date":"2024-06-05T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.local\/?page_id=327495"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:08:16","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull home-post-group-top is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-wp-context=\"{}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/query\" data-wp-key=\"0\" data-wp-router-region=\"query-0\" class=\"wp-block-query home-featured-post is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li data-wp-key=\"post-template-item-450993\" class=\"wp-block-post post-450993 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-film tag-beach tag-collection 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