[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":115},["ShallowReactive",2],{"pub-archive-australia-mercury-hobart-magazine":3},[4,21,31,40,49,58,66,74,82,90,99,107],{"id":5,"timeStamp":6,"permaLink":7,"coverFilename":8,"aspectRatio":9,"publicationDate":10,"hasStory":11,"storyTitle":12,"storyLinkPage":13,"storyLinkKey":14,"storyDescription":15,"countrySlug":16,"countryName":17,"publicationName":18,"publicationSlug":19,"status":20},3428502,"2026-04-11 08:46:06","https://www.pressreader.com/australia/mercury-hobart-magazine/20260411","2026/04/11/australia-mercury-hobart-magazine",0.838495575221239,"2026-04-11 00:00:00",1,"The Doll Trilogy",3,"281487872909435","The emotional conclusion to an epic","australia","Australia","Magazine","mercury-hobart-magazine","alive",{"id":22,"timeStamp":23,"permaLink":24,"coverFilename":25,"aspectRatio":9,"publicationDate":26,"hasStory":11,"storyTitle":27,"storyLinkPage":28,"storyLinkKey":29,"storyDescription":30,"countrySlug":16,"countryName":17,"publicationName":18,"publicationSlug":19,"status":20},3419531,"2026-04-04 12:11:06","https://www.pressreader.com/australia/mercury-hobart-magazine/20260404","2026/04/04/australia-mercury-hobart-magazine","2026-04-04 00:00:00","“The idea of having an electric vehicle gave me the horrors”",4,"281509347733315","Do you ever sit there and think, woah, maybe the conspiracy theorists are right? 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