{"id":249686,"date":"2020-07-06T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=249686"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:18:59","slug":"how-to-become-wiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/how-to-become-wiser\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Become Wiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom and sagacity as the end goal of life; not money, power, prestige, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is wisdom? <\/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='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/8dkREdOk?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=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Not getting suckered by others or by reality. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Do what is best for you and for your own kin, family, and friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom is subjective, but highly practical and pragmatic. 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I&#8217;m the only good philosopher-artist-sociologist I know. I&#8217;m the only one I can trust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Share your own knowledge, opinions and thoughts <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisdom and sagacity as the end goal of life; not money, power, prestige, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249429,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249686","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\/07\/914A5CE3-9384-4465-8F7E-959E15A7BD6F.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249686","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=249686"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249693,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249686\/revisions\/249693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}