{"id":182418,"date":"2019-10-29T10:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=182418"},"modified":"2019-10-29T18:39:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T01:39:26","slug":"do-we-like-it-for-what-it-is-or-what-it-symbolizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/do-we-like-it-for-what-it-is-or-what-it-symbolizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we like it for what it is or what it symbolizes?"},"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>When we desire x, y, z, do we want it for what it is, or what it symbolizes?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Do we want that car for what it is, or what it symbolizes? For instance I want the Lamborghini for what it symbolizes: audacity, sexiness, and power. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I actually want to own the car itself.<\/li><li>Much of fashion and luxury is about the <em>notion<\/em> of elegance, beauty, and grace. We think that by purchasing these things we <em>become<\/em> more beautiful, graceful, and worthy.<\/li><li>When we want to buy that new camera, what we really want is to feel more inspired, creative and happy. But will buying that new camera really have that effect?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought: When we desire x, y, z, do we want it for what it is, or what it symbolizes? For example: Do we want that car for what it is, or what it \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182508,"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-182418","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\/10\/6CDBE92E-E078-43C5-9D4C-FCA0216841FF.jpeg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182418","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=182418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182423,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182418\/revisions\/182423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}