{"id":641115,"date":"2024-10-14T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=641115"},"modified":"2024-10-14T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:30:31","slug":"dont-play-it-safe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/dont-play-it-safe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Play it Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Perhaps one of the ways we fail in life is when we play it too safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Certainly there are some situations in playing it safe is a good idea; when it comes to life or death situations. But for most other things in life, assuming it is not a life or death situation, do the more unorthodox, risky route. I think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be happier, more energized, more successful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think also when it comes to our consumerist behaviors; there are certain things that one can do which literally takes no skill or courage. For example buying a new Porsche 911\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 So boring, played out, and obvious? If you get a new 911, truth be told nobody would really fault you for it, but it is the almost too obvious, too much of the safe bet to try to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cool\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one of the ways we fail in life is when we play it too safe. Certainly there are some situations in playing it safe is a good idea; when it comes to life \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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-641115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641115","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=641115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641123,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641115\/revisions\/641123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}