{"id":173196,"date":"2019-09-24T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=173196"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:44:55","slug":"not-hard-for-the-sake-of-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/not-hard-for-the-sake-of-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Hard for the Sake of Hard."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A problem in modern society:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We valorize hard work the sake of hard work, but rarely do we think, “Why?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you want to discover more truth WHY<\/em> you do anything in life, have a quick chat with ‘Zen of Eric<\/a>‘ (my new philosophy chat-bot, which is currently only available in America).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Where does the notion of going ‘hard’ for the sake of it come from?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the most part, I think (generally speaking) it is better to ‘go hard’ than to ‘go soft’. But we must have a purpose why<\/em> we want to go hard, and for what. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only go hard to prove something to yourself, not to prove it to anyone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A problem in modern society: We valorize hard work the sake of hard work, but rarely do we think, “Why?” If you want to discover more truth WHY you do anything in life, have \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172858,"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-173196","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\/09\/providence-eric-kim-photography-2019-112.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173196","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=173196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173201,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173196\/revisions\/173201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}