{"id":371,"date":"2009-05-01T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?page_id=371"},"modified":"2025-02-22T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:09:43","slug":"it-will-be-ok","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/video\/it-will-be-ok","title":{"rendered":"It Will Be OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year: 2009<br \/>\nDuration: 00:03:34<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It Will Be OK\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QqfKOob6GOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With the caressing and gentle persuasion that everything will be all right I am comforting a plush dog with big sad eyes. This ridiculous action has two points of departure: one is that I believe that the dog is alive and under stress and I can comfort him; the other is that I am fully aware of the dog being a toy and I am actually comforting myself while caressing him.<\/p>\n<p>In both ways one can begin to question my sanity. The whiteness of my clothes, the sofa and the dog reflects the whiteness of a mental institution while the hushed sound of the clock in the background emphasizes the solitude and the slow passing of time.<\/p>\n<p>This video is a part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/projects\/the-only-thing-i-can-control-is-my-attitude-towards-life\">body of work<\/a> dealing with the theme of optimism bias and positive illusion. These psychological terms describe the overly optimistic beliefs of an individual and present a perfect illustration of the dictatorship of positive thinking that is widely spread by the New Age movement and self-help literature. Taking into account the current world financial and medical crisis the act of comforting can be perceived in a new perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year: 2009 Duration: 00:03:34 With the caressing and gentle persuasion that everything will be all right I am comforting a plush dog with big sad eyes. This ridiculous action has two points of departure: one is that I believe that the dog is alive and under stress and I can comfort him; the other is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions\/3179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}