{"id":207610,"date":"2014-06-06T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/06\/food-doesnt-taste-better-or-worse-when-documented\/"},"modified":"2014-06-06T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:56:23","slug":"food-doesnt-taste-better-or-worse-when-documented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/06\/food-doesnt-taste-better-or-worse-when-documented\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Food doesn\u2019t taste better or worse when documented by Instagram. Laughter is as genuine over Skype as it would be sharing a sofa. Pay attention. Take in nature, hold someone\u2019s hand, read a book. But don\u2019t ever apologize for snapping a photo of a sunrise after a hike, or blogging about the excitement of having a crush, or updating your goodreads account. All of these things are good and should be celebrated. Smile at strangers on the sidewalk and like your friends\u2019 selfies. It\u2019s all good for the human spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mzscBdsIK-Hn9TM5WVtyB-Q\" target=\"_blank\">cogitoergoblog<\/a> on Facebook\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/elauxe.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">elauxe<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I expected this to be critical, but instead it is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/noirbettie.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">noirbettie<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food doesn\u2019t taste better or worse when documented by Instagram. Laughter is as genuine over Skype as it would be sharing a sofa. Pay attention. Take in nature, hold someone\u2019s hand, read a book. But don\u2019t ever apologize for snapping a photo of a sunrise after a hike, or blogging about the excitement of having &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/06\/food-doesnt-taste-better-or-worse-when-documented\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}