{"id":38774,"date":"2026-06-25T14:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=38774"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:41:01","slug":"google-fires-cli-maxxxxxing-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/google-fires-cli-maxxxxxing-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Fires CLI Maxxxxxing Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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