{"id":401590,"date":"2022-05-12T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=401590"},"modified":"2022-05-12T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:28:20","slug":"we-dont-want-more-happiness-or-better-weather-what-we-desire-is-greater-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/12\/we-dont-want-more-happiness-or-better-weather-what-we-desire-is-greater-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want more happiness, or better weather. What we desire is greater challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greater social challenges, greater challenges in the gym with <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/02\/how-to-one-rep-max-powerlifting\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"284024\">powerlifting<\/a>, attempting new personal records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After having lived in perfect weather and a perfect climate, and after living in <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/09\/providence-is-paradise\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"232655\">Providence<\/a> Rhode Island, in places with variable weather, I have discovered that in fact, weather is overrated. When the weather is not good, just bundle up. Like the Swedes say, <strong>there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothin<\/strong>g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps the same thing is in life. You create your own happiness by creating your own new challenges. And what it comes down to is whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/challenges-which-test-you\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"397360\">challenge<\/a> is actually interesting to you or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater social challenges, greater challenges in the gym with powerlifting, attempting new personal records. After having lived in perfect weather and a perfect climate, and after living in Providence Rhode Island, in places with \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401590","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\/2022\/05\/g91-21-of-110.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401590","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=401590"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401599,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401590\/revisions\/401599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}