{"id":122379,"date":"2014-04-13T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122379"},"modified":"2014-04-13T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T14:46:10","slug":"but-whats-really-the-point-of-adults-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122379","title":{"rendered":"But what&#8217;s really the point of adults?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.media.tumblr.com\/37b666e5a874d182b4035da20aa16f5f\/tumblr_n3vlnaeSNm1r9qk1io1_500.png?resize=500%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>via<a href=\"http:\/\/pdlcomics.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> poorlydrawnlines<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50410\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">But what\u2019s really the point of adults?<\/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>via poorlydrawnlines But what\u2019s really the point of adults? was originally published on The Curious Brain<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-122379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50410,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50410","url_meta":{"origin":122379,"position":0},"title":"But what&#8217;s really the point of adults?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"13\/04\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via poorlydrawnlines","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\/37.media.tumblr.com\/37b666e5a874d182b4035da20aa16f5f\/tumblr_n3vlnaeSNm1r9qk1io1_500.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":147078,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147078","url_meta":{"origin":122379,"position":1},"title":"Soft Monsters for a Hard World: Why Adults Are Worshipping Labubu","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"05\/06\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s a plush goblin haunting luxury boutiques and TikTok feeds.Its ears are sharp. 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