{"id":693,"date":"2006-06-05T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2006-06-05T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T09:22:20","slug":"the-weight-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"the weight of choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the past month, i&#8217;ve come to a conclusion that will save myself and hopefully take the company to the next level. although i don&#8217;t know if it will actually pan out, considering the challenage of finding someone approraite to &#8216;replace&#8217; me as the head cheese, i am very much embracing the idea on numerous levels. i think after watching the power of myth, it became apparent that i wasn&#8217;t following my bliss. it&#8217;s not so black and white because as i still have the problem with the concept that is it the ego that is following it&#8217;s bliss. in so as much, my responsiblity to the bigger movitvation, keeps the bliss following in check. in some regard, i consider the path of following my own bliss seems unresponsible or unworthy. somehow, i&#8217;ve created a line of logic that limits the &#8220;ability&#8221; of photography\/art to benefit humanity on the level that i feel the need to operate at. obviously, art\/photography can  be the &#8216;clothing of revelation&#8217; and inform and inspire humanity. maybe it is my own naviety to believe that i want a more direct\/viseral experience to that process. i am aware that it&#8217;s all about trade offs. when one works at a higher level (ie art\/philanthropy) it can reach and inspire a lot more people than a personal direct approach to evalvating the human condition. i am sure in hindsight, my rational  will evolve to the higher level of the process but for now, i am knee keep in foundational exercises. even before anything has happen, even the simple choice to try to let go has already breathe fresh air into my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the past month, i&#8217;ve come to a conclusion that will save myself and hopefully take the company to the next level. although i don&#8217;t know if it will actually pan out, considering the challenage of finding someone approraite to &#8216;replace&#8217; me as the head cheese, i am very much embracing the idea on numerous levels. i think after watching the power of myth, it became apparent that i wasn&#8217;t following my bliss. it&#8217;s not so black and white because as i still have the problem with the concept that is it the ego that is following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}