{"id":243523,"date":"2020-06-11T03:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=243523"},"modified":"2020-06-11T03:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:23:03","slug":"social-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/social-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCIAL FEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social fears; the easiest fears to conquer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You really got nothing to lose.<\/h2>\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\/0em3m6pd?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;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\">My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Social media and phones and video games and portable video games have made our new generation <em>EVEN MORE<\/em> socially fearful. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, let me consider some 21-year old students I&#8217;ve met. None of them can make prolonged eye contact with me, yet they can yell and scream and curse when playing a video game. Odd? No. This is the new sociological fact.<\/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\/sunBHQjB?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can we blame people for being socially fearsome?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. Media and social media is also to blame. For example, all modern news is about <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/fear-marketing\/\">fear marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/02\/fear-feeds\/\">fear feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social fears; the easiest fears to conquer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243461,"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-243523","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\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-10-at-10.43.43-PM-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243523","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=243523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243529,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243523\/revisions\/243529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}