{"id":408083,"date":"2022-06-17T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=408083"},"modified":"2022-06-17T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T21:00:39","slug":"what-is-the-significance-of-being-a-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/17\/what-is-the-significance-of-being-a-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the significance of being a fan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fan is actually short for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fanatic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. What is the point of being a fanatic, or a fan for certain sports team. What is the significance if they win? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My theory is that you externalize your ego into a foreign entity, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say a sports team. And therefore, when they win, you feel like you win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But does this make sense? No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My intervention: rather than becoming a fan of a certain sports team, you yourself become your own fan by actually playing that sport. I find it very bizarre how lots of people follow certain sports, yet don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play the sport, nor have ever played the sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost like claiming to be an expert on sex, when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only watched pornography<\/a> your whole life, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never done it in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same thing with superhero movies. Instead of watching superhero movies, you yourself strive to become that superhero. A simple step is just going to the gym and getting into powerlifting<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fan is actually short for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fanatic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. What is the point of being a fanatic, or a fan for certain sports team. What is the significance if they win? My theory is that you externalize \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408090,"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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/31BBBDE7-BB73-4833-8D4A-8FF09A7D435B.jpeg?fit=750%2C1125&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408083","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=408083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408091,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408083\/revisions\/408091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}