{"id":257720,"date":"2020-07-28T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=257720"},"modified":"2020-07-29T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:37:13","slug":"why-havent-i-ever-met-a-happy-person-from-silicon-valley-or-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/why-havent-i-ever-met-a-happy-person-from-silicon-valley-or-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Haven&#8217;t I Ever Met a Happy Person From Silicon Valley or Tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Truth be told all my friends are miserable, none of them (besides my friend Kevin) is happy. Why? My thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Social comparison<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What non-Silicon valley folks don&#8217;t understand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t get it &#8230; you make $200,000 a year &#8230; but are depressed? What right do you have to be depressed when so many other (unprivileged people) are suffering in the world!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I see all suffering as equal. No pain olympics here, or suffering olympics. It don&#8217;t matter how rich or poor you are; if you suffer, you suffer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth be told all my friends are miserable, none of them (besides my friend Kevin) is happy. Why? My thoughts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257720","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\/20200725-EK067162-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257720","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=257720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257968,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257720\/revisions\/257968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}