{"id":280811,"date":"2020-10-18T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=280811"},"modified":"2020-10-18T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T14:13:03","slug":"why-aesthetics-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/18\/why-aesthetics-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aesthetics Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No aesthetics, no beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why beauty? Beauty is the great physiological joy of humankind. And we as artists&#8230; aesthetics is all we care for. Beauty and only beauty \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we hate the ugly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the goal is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To surround ourselves with only the beautiful, and to strive to <em>create<\/em> beautiful things, and to become *MORE* beautiful ourselves. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To focus on our own self-beautification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A life only focused on utility \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a slave-like existence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No aesthetics, no beauty. Why beauty? Beauty is the great physiological joy of humankind. And we as artists&#8230; aesthetics is all we care for. Beauty and only beauty \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we hate the ugly! Then the goal is this: To surround ourselves with only the beautiful, and to strive to create beautiful things, and to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280794,"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-280811","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\/10\/844DD446-9AA7-448D-9FCB-F0737BBBB3EE-scaled.jpeg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280811","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=280811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280815,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280811\/revisions\/280815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}