{"id":122071,"date":"2014-05-09T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122071"},"modified":"2014-05-09T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:01:40","slug":"allergy-to-originality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122071","title":{"rendered":"Allergy to Originality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/84337340\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this animated Op-Doc by Drew Christie, two men discuss whether anything is truly original \u2014 especially in movies and books. Via  The New York Times<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=51079\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Allergy to Originality<\/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>In this animated Op-Doc by Drew Christie, two men discuss whether anything is truly original \u2014 especially in movies and books. 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