{"id":149479,"date":"2025-11-04T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149479"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:42:20","slug":"what-we-are-reading-694","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149479","title":{"rendered":"what we are reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-11-04-at-11.39.58.png?resize=528%2C548&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149480\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FWKJTPWB\">Corporate Hell Colouring Book: Because Killing Your Coworkers is Wrong&#8230; (Mostly)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Hell Colouring Book: Because Killing Your Coworkers is Wrong&#8230; (Mostly)\u00a0<\/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":[503,4294,4289,4031],"class_list":["post-149479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-books","tag-colouring-books","tag-corporate-hell","tag-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149232,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149232","url_meta":{"origin":149479,"position":0},"title":"what we are reading","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"24\/10\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Corporate Hell Colouring Book: Because Killing Your Coworkers is Wrong... 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