{"id":121479,"date":"2014-07-02T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=121479"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:04:40","slug":"the-golden-age-of-bullshit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=121479","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Age of Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EyTn_DgfcFE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Bob Hoffman opens a fascinating debate on the failed predictions of advertising experts over the past decade, with particular focus on the social media marketing of brands. via <a href=\"http:\/\/adcontrarian.blogspot.gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adcontrarian<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=52342\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Golden Age of Bullshit<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Hoffman opens a fascinating debate on the failed predictions of advertising experts over the past decade, with particular focus on the social media marketing of brands. via adcontrarian The Golden Age of Bullshit was originally published on The Curious Brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121480,"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":[360],"class_list":["post-121479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-golden-age-of-bullshit.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52342,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=52342","url_meta":{"origin":121479,"position":0},"title":"The Golden Age of Bullshit","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"02\/07\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EyTn_DgfcFE Bob Hoffman opens a fascinating debate on the failed predictions of advertising experts over the past decade, with particular focus on the social media marketing of brands. via adcontrarian","rel":"","context":"In &quot;PPT\/ cool decks&quot;","block_context":{"text":"PPT\/ cool decks","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=221"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/EyTn_DgfcFE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":150151,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150151","url_meta":{"origin":121479,"position":1},"title":"The fine art of bullshit","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"05\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Bullshit has always existed, but modern life has refined it into a near professional discipline. 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