{"id":15587,"date":"2012-01-26T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15587"},"modified":"2012-01-26T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T03:04:43","slug":"a-picture-of-humanity-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15587\/a-picture-of-humanity-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"A picture of humanity at its best."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/TheMindAscendant.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[24,212,29,379,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-innovation","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14251,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14251\/to-say-the-truth-my-plan-was-to-say-nothing-about-the-ipad-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":15587,"position":0},"title":"To say the truth, my plan was to say nothing about the iPad 2&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"...but that was before I saw the new Smart Covers... 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