{"id":5991,"date":"2022-01-06T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2022-01-06T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:22:49","slug":"contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/contest\/","title":{"rendered":"contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People advise what to wear or act on certain occasions, like a dressed monkey for a grand feast. There have been a few instances where people acted lowly because of my dressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder who decides what we should wear or how we carry ourselves: consumerism lobby, which thrives on selling more? All are chasing it like rats believing it&#8217;s our bucket list? We are throwing authenticity and originality to the dustbin on a quest of fitting into this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We eat, act, project, or behave how others want us to see. My simple question is, why? As long as we are not offending anyone, why can we not be as we are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be it personal or professional life: I end up meeting lab rats of consumerism and society faking and making up like life is a popularity contest. I have nothing against them. It is just that my time is not for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People advise what to wear or act on certain occasions, like a dressed monkey for a grand feast. There have been a few instances where people acted lowly because of my dressing. I wonder who decides what we should wear or how we carry ourselves: consumerism lobby, which thrives on selling more? All are chasing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/contest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;contest&#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":[1264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991"}],"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=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}