{"id":4020,"date":"2019-10-17T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:15:14","slug":"self-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/self-help\/","title":{"rendered":"self help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Self-help books appear to be the hot sell. From Amazon&#8217;s listing to bookstores, they are stacked everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have we turned dumber or have become less confident than our elders?  Why is the business of self-help getting so much air?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I fell that fear of missing out and belonging to society has a lot to do with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The irony of 2019 is that any garbage can be packed and sold as a book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Socrates must be confused. My discourse for mare mortals was about acquiring self-knowledge, not becoming slave self-help books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-help books appear to be the hot sell. From Amazon&#8217;s listing to bookstores, they are stacked everywhere. Have we turned dumber or have become less confident than our elders? Why is the business of self-help getting so much air? I fell that fear of missing out and belonging to society has a lot to do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/self-help\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;self help&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}