{"id":311884,"date":"2021-04-17T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=311884"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:41:36","slug":"in-praise-of-having-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/17\/in-praise-of-having-children\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Having Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems the millennial<\/a> trend is to *NOT* have kids, or to desire to *NOT* have children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I can say (as a millennial, or ‘Generation Y’ kid, born in 1988) that having children is one of the most blessed things you can do, experience and witness in life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The joy of witnessing carte blanche growth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"seneca<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Watching and witnessing Seneca grow up is one of the most insanely epic joys of my life. 100000x better than any new camera, toy, phone, device or thing I’ve ever gotten. 100000000x better than willing a trillion dollars. Which makes me think and wonder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If peoples’ goal in life is to maximize their joy and happiness, isn’t having kids the optimal strategy? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems the millennial trend is to *NOT* have kids, or to desire to *NOT* have children. But I can say (as a millennial, or ‘Generation Y’ kid, born in 1988) that having children is one of the most blessed things you can do, experience and witness in life:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","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-311884","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\/04\/EK064937-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311884","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=311884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311893,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311884\/revisions\/311893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}