{"id":341793,"date":"2021-12-05T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/05\/avoid-the-middle\/"},"modified":"2021-12-05T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:50:43","slug":"avoid-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/05\/avoid-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/11\/barbell-philosophy-to-life\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"215232\">barbell<\/a> theory to life, avoid the middle. For example, with cars don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy a V6 engine, either get a 4 cylinder or a V-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With investments, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do the boring middle risk funds. Rather, either keep boring cash which is super safe, or extremely speculative <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/in-praise-of-crypto\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"327983\">cryptocurrency<\/a> investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also with friends and the company you keep, avoid the middle. Avoid your lukewarm friends, and keep your hard-core friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The barbell theory to life, avoid the middle. For example, with cars don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy a V6 engine, either get a 4 cylinder or a V-8. With investments, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do the boring middle risk funds. Rather, either keep boring cash which is super safe, or extremely speculative cryptocurrency investments. Also with friends and the company you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341682,"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-341793","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\/12\/125-105-of-212-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341793","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=341793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341795,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341793\/revisions\/341795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}