{"id":15065,"date":"2011-01-03T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=15065"},"modified":"2011-01-03T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:10:38","slug":"7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=15065","title":{"rendered":"7 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18239773?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nNational Geographic Magazine is doing a year-long series on the world population reaching 7 billion. This is the motion\/typography  promo piece that Jamie Lee Godfrey  did  for the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Magazine is doing a year-long series on the world population reaching 7 billion. 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