{"id":138069,"date":"2019-04-08T12:57:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=138069"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:58:06","slug":"beyond-basic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/beyond-basic\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Basic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Life is too short to be basic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>With little to no effort, we can all live good, safe, secure, basic lives. A life where we follow the rules, where we don&#8217;t upset anyone else, or ruffle any feathers (Japanese society). If you work diligently, obey authority and rules, one day you can own a BMW 3-series, travel to Europe, pay off the mortgage on your home, and send your kids off to college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But certainly, shouldn&#8217;t we aspire to more in life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond basic living<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is too precious to squander it with basic shit. We should strive to be &#8220;anti basic&#8221;; to strive towards greatness. To question authority and the rules. To upset others and the predominant narrative and social structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means, listening to yourself, your own gut, even though you may piss others off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your potential is unlimited; how deeply have you inspected your soul, and how high do you think you can soar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ERIC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is too short to be basic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ricoh-gr-ii-orange-country-2019-57.jpg?fit=2048%2C1356&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138070,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138069\/revisions\/138070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}