{"id":164982,"date":"2019-08-20T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=164982"},"modified":"2019-08-20T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:10:54","slug":"happiness-isnt-the-end-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/happiness-isnt-the-end-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness isn&#8217;t the End Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The end goal isn&#8217;t happiness, it is artistic ex\/outpression, and the witnessing of yourself becoming stronger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, helping empower others along the way while you&#8217;re still alive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Happiness is a reflection of power and thriving?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When are we happy? We are happy when we are witnessing progression in our life, when we have strong health, and strong confidence in ourselves. To strive towards happiness is good; but we want happiness in order to maximize our health, in order to maximize our creative output and personal evolution! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought: The end goal isn&#8217;t happiness, it is artistic ex\/outpression, and the witnessing of yourself becoming stronger. Also, helping empower others along the way while you&#8217;re still alive! Happiness is a reflection of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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-164982","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\/08\/eric-kim-cruise-ricoh-gr-iii-69.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164982","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=164982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164983,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164982\/revisions\/164983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}