{"id":276019,"date":"2020-09-22T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=276019"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T19:19:02","slug":"inefficiency-is-the-ultimate-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/inefficiency-is-the-ultimate-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"Inefficiency is the Ultimate Luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To not worry about being &#8220;efficient&#8221; in life as the ultimate luxury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, to have the luxury to cook and clean yourself (slowly); this is a luxury. It is the poor and enslaved class which needs to have &#8220;working lunches&#8221; at their desk with their sad microwaveable lunches. True luxury is to do things which aren&#8217;t &#8220;efficient&#8221; (dropping your kids off at school, walking around the block, chatting with a friend unhurriedly, chopping veggies, etc). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus my idea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Opt for an unhurried and &#8220;inefficient&#8221; life. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And the irony:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Perhaps an inefficient and unhurried life (insouicance in French) is the key to a more &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/not-good-or-bad-but-effective-or-ineffective\/\">effective<\/a>&#8221; life. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To not worry about being &#8220;efficient&#8221; in life as the ultimate luxury. For example, to have the luxury to cook and clean yourself (slowly); this is a luxury. It is the poor and enslaved class which needs to have &#8220;working lunches&#8221; at their desk with their sad microwaveable lunches. True luxury is to do things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275899,"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-276019","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\/09\/3AB38E29-ABA8-47FB-A970-68A358711DD8.jpeg?fit=1500%2C759&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276019","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=276019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276020,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276019\/revisions\/276020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}