{"id":280586,"date":"2020-10-16T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=280586"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:15:05","slug":"just-own-a-few-of-the-best-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/just-own-a-few-of-the-best-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Own a Few of the Best Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A thought;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Don&#8217;t strive to just continuing to procure shit for the sake of it. No \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 own a few things (of the apex quality) in order for you to <em>NOT<\/em> think about these things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The game ain&#8217;t to keep procuring <em>MORE<\/em> of the highest quality goods (to no end). No, the purpose of owning the highest quality things is an end in itself; once you have the highest quality goods (or at least 90% good enough in your eyes) then you can take a pause, and STOP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">STOP. This is the goal. Highest quality tools in order to <em>STOP<\/em> thinking about more capitalistic and consumerist things; in order to <em>NOT<\/em> think about buying new random shit. To gain a zen-zone with the goods you own <em>in order to<\/em> focus on your creative thinking and creative production!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought; Don&#8217;t strive to just continuing to procure shit for the sake of it. No \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 own a few things (of the apex quality) in order for you to NOT think about these \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_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-280586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280586","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=280586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280620,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280586\/revisions\/280620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}