{"id":454510,"date":"2022-11-26T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=454510"},"modified":"2022-11-26T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:37:55","slug":"virtue-flexing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/26\/virtue-flexing-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue Flexing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is it considered to be improper to flex your muscles, but, it is seen as virtuous to show off how virtuous you are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some modern thinkers have called this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153virtue signaling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I call it virtue flexing. What is the difference? All of these pseudo-woke people are just trying to flex on one another on how virtuous and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153woke\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they are. Yet at the end of the day, it is all superficial.  Nay, not even superficial. Pathetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/IXFbbjep?cover=1&amp;autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ferickimphotography.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F11%2Fimg_7062-1_mov_avc_240p.original.jpg&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;useAverageColor=1&amp;hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it considered to be improper to flex your muscles, but, it is seen as virtuous to show off how virtuous you are? Some modern thinkers have called this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153virtue signaling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I call \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454413,"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,"_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-454510","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\/11\/CA331A93-53A8-4E80-800D-B21DD7D95E5E-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454510","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=454510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454516,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454510\/revisions\/454516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}