{"id":209023,"date":"2009-04-05T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/04\/05\/imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-flattery\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T18:35:00","slug":"imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation is sincerest form of flattery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeclipartfree.com\/albums\/photo-clip-art-people-kids\/normal_Convict_stealing_computer_5k.gif\"><img alt=\"Imitation is sincerest form of flattery?\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freeclipartfree.com\/albums\/photo-clip-art-people-kids\/normal_Convict_stealing_computer_5k.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jeff Duncan&#8230; hmm, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nola.com\/jeffduncan\/2009\/04\/missteps_after_2006_season_sen.html\">this is the article he wrote today<\/a> on the front page of the Times-Picayune sports section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saintsnation.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/disaster-that-was-2007-offseason.html\">This is the article I posted on my blog TWO DAYS AGO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice any similarities?<\/p>\n<p>Ummmm&#8230;..?????<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to start posting topics of less quality if I don&#8217;t want nola.com to steal my ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Jeff Duncan&#8230; hmm, well, this is the article he wrote today on the front page of the Times-Picayune sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543620512],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Imitation is sincerest form of flattery? 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