{"id":268114,"date":"2020-08-23T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=268114"},"modified":"2020-08-23T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:14:09","slug":"greed-is-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/greed-is-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed is Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We tend to think of greed as synonymous with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But the word <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/greedy#English\">greed<\/a> simply means hunger. But isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hunger good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/08\/stay-hungry-stay-foolish\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"214551\">Stay hungry, stay foolish<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/17-lessons-steve-jobs-has-taught-me\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"113662\">Steve Jobs<\/a> via Whole Earth Catalogue). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closer word for greed in Latin is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153avarice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/avarus#Latin\">avarus<\/a>) which means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to desire and to long for.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it then good to have desires and to wish and long for things? To desire enjoyment and to feed yourself? To <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/how-to-augment-your-power\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"249891\">augment<\/a> yourself and <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/growth-vs-becoming\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"264739\">grow<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to think of greed as synonymous with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But the word greed simply means hunger. But isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hunger good? Stay hungry, stay foolish (Steve Jobs via Whole Earth Catalogue). The closer word \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268116,"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-268114","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\/08\/7A50B388-A6C4-4629-AA0D-BE99CAB3E16D.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268114","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=268114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268123,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268114\/revisions\/268123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}