{"id":14338,"date":"2010-12-01T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=14338"},"modified":"2011-05-22T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T18:35:09","slug":"digital-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=14338","title":{"rendered":"Digital Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ylmmkQWd22s?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><br \/>\nOn December 1st, Hollywood dies a digital death. The world&#8217;s top celebrity tweeters are sacrificing their digital lives to give real life to millions of people affected by HIV\/AIDS in Africa and India. Watch their full last tweet and testaments and buy their digital lives back at buylife.org <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1st, Hollywood dies a digital death. The world&#8217;s top celebrity tweeters are sacrificing their digital lives to give real life to millions of people affected by HIV\/AIDS in Africa and India. Watch their full last tweet and testaments and buy their digital lives back at buylife.org<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ads","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53584,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=53584","url_meta":{"origin":14338,"position":0},"title":"ANALOGUE PEOPLE IN A DIGITAL AGE","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"16\/09\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"ANALOGUE PEOPLE IN A DIGITAL AGE - short documentary from Twopair Films on Vimeo. 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