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				"title": "Gherking? Like the pickle?",
				"content_html": "<p>Yep. That&rsquo;s my last name. Or, close enough. In high school my friends just called me Pickle.</p>\n<p>These days I build apps for the International Mission Board. Before that, a handful of tech companies you&rsquo;ve probably heard of. (<em>And for anyone who&rsquo;s written BDD tests: Gherkin is the syntax in Cucumber, and the parser compiles it into objects the project literally calls pickles. I didn&rsquo;t plan that.</em>)</p>\n<p>But I like to think gherking is synonymous with pickling. Putting the cucumber in the brine and letting it transform. That&rsquo;s what I hope the act of writing does to me. That I soak in it and change a little, day by day. Yes, I do come up with meanings for my made-up words.</p>\n<img src=\"https://gherk.ing/uploads/2026/img-6406.jpg\">\n",
				
				"date_published": "2026-09-15T18:02:13+02:00",
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