{"id":114391,"date":"2015-07-20T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=114391"},"modified":"2015-07-20T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:42:11","slug":"what-we-are-reading-579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=114391","title":{"rendered":"what we are reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=71292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what we are\u00a0reading<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16-922x843.png?resize=922%2C843\" alt=\"books\" width=\"922\" height=\"843\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591845564\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1591845564&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thecuriousbra-20&amp;linkId=4ZGK65VZRB6D5HPD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thecuriousbra-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1591845564\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=71292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View On WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what we are\u00a0reading Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis View On WordPress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[503,602,1139,1138],"class_list":["post-114391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-books","tag-currency","tag-global-collapse","tag-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71292,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=71292","url_meta":{"origin":114391,"position":0},"title":"what we are reading","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"20\/07\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16.png?fit=1150%2C1052&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16.png?fit=1150%2C1052&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16.png?fit=1150%2C1052&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16.png?fit=1150%2C1052&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-13.40.16.png?fit=1150%2C1052&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":119970,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=119970","url_meta":{"origin":114391,"position":1},"title":"JWT: The Future of Payments &amp; Currency","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"01\/12\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"JWT: The Future of Payments & Currency (October 2014) from JWTIntelligence The payments and currency systems are on the verge of disruption. 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