{"id":213898,"date":"2020-03-05T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=213898"},"modified":"2020-03-05T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:03:34","slug":"why-i-want-to-become-more-beautiful-philosophy-of-personal-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/why-i-want-to-become-more-beautiful-philosophy-of-personal-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Want to Become More Beautiful: Philosophy of Personal Aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why buy a Lamborghini when you can <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/transform-your-body-into-a-lamborghini\/\">transform your body into a Lamborghini<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You are the best object to admire.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why I Want to Become More Beautiful: Philosophy of Personal Aesthetics\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NHU909YvBMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do we buy stuff? We want to buy objects we consider beautiful, to imbue ourselves with its beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, we buy a Lamborghini because we want to embed and imbue ourselves with the POWER of the Lamborghini &#8212; the symbolism of the masculinity and power associated with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/MECtJb96?preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But more efficient from a money and life perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Better to transform your own body into an object of beauty, power, and admiration &#8212; to admire yourself, by yourself, and even in private!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When I look at myself naked in the mirror (before taking a shower) do I love what I see?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC KIM <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why buy a Lamborghini when you can transform your body into a Lamborghini?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213535,"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-213898","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\/2020\/03\/R0067066-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213898","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=213898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213903,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213898\/revisions\/213903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}