{"id":1732,"date":"2009-04-27T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2009-04-27T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:12:50","slug":"how-to-be-happier-stay-connected-to-your-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/04\/27\/how-to-be-happier-stay-connected-to-your-past\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be Happier: Stay Connected To Your Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Gretchen Rubin Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/gretchen-rubin\/how-to-be-happier-stay-co_b_191037.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article by Gretchen Rubin.<\/p>\n<p>She is working on her Happiness Project, and <a title=\"Happiness Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happiness-project.com\/happiness_project\/2007\/08\/my-huge-happine.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>you could have one, too<\/strong><\/a>! Everyone&#8217;s project will look different, but it&#8217;s the rare person who can&#8217;t benefit. Join in &#8212; no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday&#8217;s post will help you think about your own happiness project.<\/p>\n<p>I see by the comments posted along with her article that many of the readers of Gretchen&#8217;s article missed an important paragraph.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, this resolution applies to aspects of your past that actually were <em>happy<\/em>. You might well choose deliberately to disengage with unhappy parts of your past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gretchen has a couple of interesting one minute movies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Years Are Short Movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyearsareshort.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Years Are Short<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Secrets of Adulthood Movie\" href=\"http:\/\/secretsofadulthood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Secrets of Adulthood<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article by Gretchen Rubin. She is working on her Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone&#8217;s project will look different, but it&#8217;s the rare person who can&#8217;t benefit. Join in &#8212; no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday&#8217;s post will help you think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}