{"id":284131,"date":"2020-11-03T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=284131"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:17:42","slug":"in-praise-of-owning-cheap-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/in-praise-of-owning-cheap-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Owning Cheap Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though I&#8217;m rich, I prefer to own cheap stuff. Why? Simple reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Less anxiety associated with ownership. For example when I&#8217;m at the gym and I need to go to the bathroom real quick, I can just leave my $150 Android smartphone and keys in my spot (to mark it) with zero anxiety with someone stealing it. Even if they stole it, it ain&#8217;t a big deal.<\/li><li>No fear of scratching, breaking or scuffing things: For example I put my keys and random things in all one pocket, and I can care less if my phone screen gets scratched or breaks. Same goes for my $800 Subaru Outback (2003 5 speed)&#8211; I can beat the shit out of it with no fear someone is gonna jack (steal) my car or fuck with it. If I owned a Lamborghini, always the annoying fear that some asshole kid would scratch (key) a penis into the side or paint.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I&#8217;m rich, I prefer to own cheap stuff. Why? Simple reasons: Less anxiety associated with ownership. For example when I&#8217;m at the gym and I need to go to the bathroom real quick, I can just leave my $150 Android smartphone and keys in my spot (to mark it) with zero anxiety with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283954,"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-284131","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\/11\/new-day-14-of-78-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284131","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=284131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284132,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284131\/revisions\/284132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}