{"id":31317,"date":"2012-05-14T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=31317"},"modified":"2012-05-14T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:24:50","slug":"jp-rangaswami-information-is-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=31317","title":{"rendered":"JP Rangaswami: Information is food"},"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\/3A1LvXRnpVg?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 \/>\nTechnologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.<\/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":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123582,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=123582","url_meta":{"origin":31317,"position":0},"title":"JP Rangaswami: Information is food","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"14\/05\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3A1LvXRnpVg Technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food. 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