{"id":1377,"date":"2017-07-08T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T10:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2024-03-02T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:46:56","slug":"my-life-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/my-life-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"My life mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersopeenrij.nl\/\">this writer<\/a> I put into words <strong>my life mechanism<\/strong> during a conversation in the kitchen. Of course I kind of knew this before, but it was never this clear to me without the words.<br \/>\nApparently I have something against consumerism. <strong>In order for me to enjoy something I need to have the idea that I am contributing.<\/strong> What is wrong with consuming? Does turning up at my day job and pay my taxes not entitle me to enjoyment during my time off? I guess because of meritocratic society and Calvinism I feel I have to be more than simply diverted. And to be honest: only being diverted quickly becomes boring. I really want to build something in the photography \/ art world for myself. At the same time I often feel like a poseur when I am working on a photograph or talking about art. I have to learn to take it simply as is without judgment. I guess for most 40-somethings this sounds familiar&#8230;<br \/>\nAfter the conversation I shot this portrait of her:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1378\" style=\"width: 962px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-05-25-11.54.20_20170525-Lynette-de-Ruijter00772.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of a writer\" width=\"962\" height=\"1283\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of a writer &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life mechanism is so simple I was literally ashamed to write the one paragraph about it. The portrait of this writer was not used later, it was too stern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}