{"id":277359,"date":"2020-09-29T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=277359"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:20:08","slug":"vain-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/29\/vain-consumerism\/","title":{"rendered":"Vain Consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Certainly we must consume (some) stuff in order to live. We must consume energy, food, resources, coffee, wifi and the such. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the problem is when we derive our self-worth and our self-esteem based on what we consume or purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vain meaning not &#8216;self-centered&#8217; and &#8216;self-pompous&#8217; but vain meaning VANUS in Latin (empty). This is the problem with vain consumerism, or vain things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It leaves us feeling empty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the goal to feel whole and full, and over-flowing and over-abundant? Perhaps we can only feel truly thriving when we are actively creating, making, and building!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly we must consume (some) stuff in order to live. We must consume energy, food, resources, coffee, wifi and the such. But the problem is when we derive our self-worth and our self-esteem based on what we consume or purchase. Vain meaning not &#8216;self-centered&#8217; and &#8216;self-pompous&#8217; but vain meaning VANUS in Latin (empty). This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","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-277359","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\/36D07ACA-A72A-4A39-B6EC-DDDE5C7259C6.jpeg?fit=1668%2C1129&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277359","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=277359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277381,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277359\/revisions\/277381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}