{"id":478,"date":"2008-11-05T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=478"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:51:48","slug":"what-does-the-word-hippie-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2008\/11\/05\/what-does-the-word-hippie-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Word &#8216;hippie&#8217; Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/80571617@N00\/2998290438\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"Give Peace &amp; Innerpreneurs a Chance\" src=\"\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/GivePeaceaChance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><a title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a> photo credit: <a title=\"jdebner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/80571617@N00\/2998290438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jdebner<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I keep getting called a &#8216;<\/strong><strong><a title=\"Hippie Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hippie\">hippie<\/a>&#8216;.<\/strong> It seems to be the only word some people can think of to describe me and my husband&#8217;s way of life and values. <strong>I know I should correct them and say that I am actually a &#8216;Cultural Creative&#8217; but I don&#8217;t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m wondering is, <strong>what do people mean when they use the word &#8216;<a title=\"Hippie Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hippie\">hippie<\/a>&#8216;?<\/strong> <strong>Is it for lack of a better term? Or are they mocking?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It makes me sad to think that people feel the need to outwardly mock conscious living. <strong>What makes it so funny? And why does it make people react in a hostile way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People keep calling me a hippie. I think they&#8217;re making fun. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10993,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/10993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}