{"id":271485,"date":"2020-09-05T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T18:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=271485"},"modified":"2020-09-05T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T18:45:54","slug":"existential-dread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/05\/existential-dread\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Dread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/how-to-conquer-existential-dread\/\">Existential dread<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the dread of being alive. The feeling of having no purpose or direction to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solution: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.messenger.com\/t\/ZenOfEric\">WHY APP?<\/a> The opportunity to ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/21\/announcing-zen-of-eric-facebook-chat-bot-philosophical-reflection-tool-why-app\/\">why?<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> ad infinitum (to infinity). You must discover a guiding principle to lead yourself in life. You cannot build your own empire of yourself based on the ideals of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existential dread \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the dread of being alive. The feeling of having no purpose or direction to life. Solution: the WHY APP? The opportunity to ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ad infinitum (to infinity). You must discover\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258009,"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-271485","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\/07\/the-zen-of-ERIC-icon-png.png?fit=2048%2C2048&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271485","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=271485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271497,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271485\/revisions\/271497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}