{"id":303049,"date":"2021-02-19T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=303049"},"modified":"2021-02-19T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:43:41","slug":"love-and-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/19\/love-and-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love without sacrifice is theft.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/24\/3-lessons-nassim-taleb-has-taught-me-about-philosophy-and-living-life\/\">Nassim Taleb<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes love so great? The level or degree of sacrifice we put forth in order to verify that love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other night when doing the midnight shift taking care of baby Seneca \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I remembered and thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If having a baby were so easy, the profundity and elevation of joy and love <em>associated<\/em> with parenthood wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be verified. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, anything you get, do, receive in life which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require sacrifice or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/13\/skin-in-the-game\/\">skin in the game<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t meaningful. In simpler words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The more we sacrifice for something, the more meaning it has. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love without sacrifice is theft.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; Nassim Taleb What makes love so great? The level or degree of sacrifice we put forth in order to verify that love. The other night when doing the midnight shift taking care of baby Seneca \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I remembered and thought: If having a baby were so easy, the profundity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303049","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\/2021\/02\/senny-34-of-76-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303049","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=303049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303054,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303049\/revisions\/303054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}