{"id":164826,"date":"2019-08-19T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=164826"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:16:38","slug":"become-a-free-thinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/become-a-free-thinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Free Thinker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In praise of thinking for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why think for yourself?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it is our role and duty as philosophers to challenge preexisting beliefs. To create new ideas, beliefs, and to assist humankind to evolve and become more powerful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are you more similar or more dissimilar from others?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you think like the herd, or are you an independent free thinker? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I aspire to become a supreme free thinker. Why? To me being a free thinker is more thrilling, exhilarating, and fun. To dare new knowledge and truths; this type of danger is exciting to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In praise of thinking for yourself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/cropped-eric-kim-cruise-ricoh-gr-iii-3.jpg?fit=2048%2C1149&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164826","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=164826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164831,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164826\/revisions\/164831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}