{"id":1160,"date":"2008-02-08T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2008-02-08T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:24:31","slug":"enough_happiness_already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Enough Happiness, already&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/107569\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek on the over-rating of Happiness<\/a>!<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t read the entire article, yet, but I like it already!  This striving to be &#8220;happy&#8221; at all costs has impoverished us, I think.  We also confuse &#8220;happiness&#8221; with &#8220;joy.&#8221;  One can be joyful even in the worst of situations.  Happiness, on the other hand, often seems nothing more than decent reception of external stimuli &#8211; or at least happiness seems to be something not so determined by internal stuff, but by externals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks Newsweek on the over-rating of Happiness! I haven&#8217;t read the entire article, yet, but I like it already! This striving to be &#8220;happy&#8221; at all costs has impoverished us, I think. We also confuse &#8220;happiness&#8221; with &#8220;joy.&#8221; One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}