{"id":176,"date":"2007-08-01T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T06:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/do-you-own-too-much-stuff"},"modified":"2007-08-01T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T06:09:59","slug":"do-you-own-too-much-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/do-you-own-too-much-stuff","title":{"rendered":"Do you own too much &#8220;stuff&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/stuff.html\">complains<\/a> that too many people spend too much time, money and effort accumulating too much &#8220;stuff&#8221; that is ultimately, not very useful. This stuff is not just worthless, it&#8217;s worse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, worse than worthless, because once you&#8217;ve accumulated a certain amount of stuff, it starts to own you rather than the other way around. I know of one couple who couldn&#8217;t retire to the town they preferred because they couldn&#8217;t afford a place there big enough for all their stuff. Their house isn&#8217;t theirs; it&#8217;s their stuff&#8217;s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/stuff.html\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham complains that too many people spend too much time, money and effort accumulating too much &#8220;stuff&#8221; that is ultimately, not very useful. This stuff is not just worthless, it&#8217;s worse. In fact, worse than worthless, because once you&#8217;ve accumulated a certain amount of stuff, it starts to own you rather than the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/general\/do-you-own-too-much-stuff\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you own too much &#8220;stuff&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}