{"id":268705,"date":"2020-08-25T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=268705"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:58:58","slug":"eric-kim-critique-of-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/eric-kim-critique-of-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"ERIC KIM Critique of Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why I am anti-competition and sharing the truth and fact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you compete in anything &#8230; you must &#8216;cheat&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let us study the classics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is one of the best recorded things when it comes to cheating? Simple &#8212; you remember the chariot race for the funeral games for Patroclus? Yes \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 cheating ran ripe in order to win the prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If there are prizes associated with winning &#8230; to *<em>NOT<\/em>* cheat is foolish. <\/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\/3uW25f99?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\">If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a modern athlete let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say who isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in middle school (high school, collegiate and beyond), the temptation of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs is very strong. Consider if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a situation where getting a full ride scholarship to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get out of the hood\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to play for some college football team&#8230; wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you want to do some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153test\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or strap yourself up with some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gear\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in order to give yourself an advantage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/why-all-competitors-must-cheat\/\">Why All Competitors Must Cheat >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I am anti-competition and sharing the truth and fact: If you compete in anything &#8230; you must &#8216;cheat&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268624,"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-268705","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\/eric-quick-home-workout-00033-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268705","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=268705"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268715,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268705\/revisions\/268715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}