{"id":18285,"date":"2014-01-16T05:20:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T05:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-youve-never-experienced-it-free-just-seems\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T05:20:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T05:20:50","slug":"if-youve-never-experienced-it-free-just-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-youve-never-experienced-it-free-just-seems\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never experienced it, \u201cfree\u201d just seems like a lower number on a slider that has \u201chalf-price\u201d in the middle. But free is not a number.<\/p>\n<p>If you paid for your education, you\u2019re likely to understand education in transactional terms. In straightforward economic terms, it means that if you charge some money, you can have some stuff. With more money comes more stuff, higher quality stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cfree\u201d is something different than \u201cless.\u201d And free is not less than cheap. It\u2019s something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of education, try thinking about love. There are people who pay for love. Some pay a lot, some pay a little. But let\u2019s be honest: everyone knows that the moment you start paying anything, it\u2019s not just love plus money. It\u2019s something else entirely, and the problems in paying aren\u2019t solved by paying less than others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/p\/8f73a9c1c123\">Kevin Slavin &#8211; Free is not for Nothing.<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/finalbossform.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kenyatta<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never experienced it, \u201cfree\u201d just seems like a lower number on a slider that has \u201chalf-price\u201d in the middle. But free is not a number. If you paid for your education, you\u2019re likely to understand education in transactional terms. In straightforward economic terms, it means that if you charge some money, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4KV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}