{"id":14068,"date":"2020-01-26T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2020-01-26T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:00:56","slug":"saturday-evening-post-is-the-self-help-industry-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/saturday-evening-post-is-the-self-help-industry-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Evening Post column: Is the Self-help Industry a Fraud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em> published my latest column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2020\/01\/is-the-self-help-industry-a-fraud\/\">Is the Self-help Industry a Fraud?<\/a>. This column explores-somewhat cynically-how the self-help industry seems to be populated by hucksters, scam artists, and grifters who promise people the Holy Grail (e.g., success, happiness, love, self-esteem) with quickly and easily for just a small sum of money. This industry taps into people&#8217;s needs for both change and instant gratification by offering &#8220;The Answer&#8221; or &#8220;The Secret&#8221; for a price. This column pulls back the curtain on this fraud and offers people a realistic view of how they can change their lives for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Saturday Evening Post published my latest column, Is the Self-help Industry a Fraud?. This column explores-somewhat cynically-how the self-help industry seems to be populated by hucksters, scam artists, and grifters who promise people the Holy Grail (e.g., success, happiness, love, self-esteem) with quickly and easily for just a small sum of money. This industry taps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1533],"tags":[1382,1383,374,1384,375],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saturday-evening-post","tag-fraud","tag-hucksters","tag-personal-growth-2","tag-scam-artists","tag-self-help"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}