It's a HTTP::Response object, and I know what's in it (that's the point of the while $k $v bit).

That's not the issue...

One node of the hash is "_content" (a scalar/string). I'm curious as to why when this is used in a script, $r is the _content string, but here in a module function it is the entire HTTP::Response bless'd hash. Again, the code is otherwise identical.

Whoops! No it's not...I was using:

print "\n".$resp->content();
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In the script. Heh-heh.