{"id":2997,"date":"2016-03-26T18:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-happen-to-believe-that-good-writing-and-being-happy-in-life-are-not-mutually-exclusive"},"modified":"2016-03-26T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:45:40","slug":"i-happen-to-believe-that-good-writing-and-being-happy-in-life-are-not-mutually-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/03\/26\/i-happen-to-believe-that-good-writing-and-being-happy-in-life-are-not-mutually-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"I happen to believe that good writing and being happy in life are not mutually exclusive."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I happen to believe that good writing and being happy in life are not mutually exclusive. (I have to believe this, because otherwise I would be doomed to be a bad writer, and that would make me unhappy.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is wordy &#8211; you can skim &#8211; but it&#8217;s a useful pointer to what psychologists who study happiness have found about things you can do to improve your happiness. A surprisingly large proportion of our happiness is able to be changed by these techniques (I forget the exact figure, but it&#8217;s tens of percent), so even if you&#8217;re a naturally unhappy person, there are things you can do to improve your experience of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Tim Brownson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> #happiness \u00a0 #happy \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/sumo.ly\/h7fq<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I happen to believe that good writing and being happy in life are not mutually exclusive.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/03\/26\/i-happen-to-believe-that-good-writing-and-being-happy-in-life-are-not-mutually-exclusive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,12],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}