{"id":125648,"date":"2011-12-01T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=125648"},"modified":"2011-12-01T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T11:06:00","slug":"things-to-buy-and-reasons-to-buy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=125648","title":{"rendered":"Things to buy, and reasons to buy them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marcjohns.com\/art\/2011\/buy-this-telephone-470.jpg?resize=470%2C663\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"663\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marcjohns.com\/art\/2011\/buy-this-tie-470.jpg?resize=470%2C667\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marcjohns.com\/art\/2011\/buy-this-lipstick-470.jpg?resize=470%2C662\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"470\" height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The irresponsible promises made (or at least implied) by so many advertisers&rdquo; . Oh boy I feel so proud working in this industry \ud83d\ude42 Created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcjohns.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Johns<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblrize-permalink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=26962\" title=\"Go to original post at The Curious Brain\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;The irresponsible promises made (or at least implied) by so many advertisers&rdquo; . Oh boy I feel so proud working in this industry \ud83d\ude42 Created by Marc Johns Original Article<\/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":[493],"class_list":["post-125648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-tumblrize"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123511,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=123511","url_meta":{"origin":125648,"position":0},"title":"buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"22\/05\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via gusto1 Original Article","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\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lrw42u9hNd1qa5rnho1_500.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31473,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=31473","url_meta":{"origin":125648,"position":1},"title":"buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"22\/05\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"via gusto1","rel":"","context":"In &quot;images&quot;","block_context":{"text":"images","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lrw42u9hNd1qa5rnho1_500.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":119719,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=119719","url_meta":{"origin":125648,"position":2},"title":"How to Buy Gifts for Geeks","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"17\/12\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"How to Buy Gifts for Geeks from Spiceworks now you know! 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