{"id":63045,"date":"2020-06-27T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63045"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:57:11","slug":"10-things-that-bring-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10-things-that-bring-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things That Bring Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Turn around a thought: everything is hard becomes everything is easy.<\/li>\n<li>Change a sour mood: smile and the sweetness returns.<\/li>\n<li>Walk and observe: hummingbirds sip from glistening red cherries.<\/li>\n<li>Watch the pond: red-winged blackbirds turn up leaves and eat bugs.<\/li>\n<li>Smell the air: blackberry vines, mock orange, yellow flag, the lake.<\/li>\n<li>Give something away: heart, socks, food, a helping hand.<\/li>\n<li>Pet dogs and cats and birds and gerbils and rabbits and horses and&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Clean out a dresser drawer: fold clothing and stack on end for easy viewing.<\/li>\n<li>Write a poem about pets or children curled in tight balls, sleeping.<\/li>\n<li>Sing to your lover even if you don&#8217;t have a good voice and don&#8217;t know the words.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn around a thought: everything is hard becomes everything is easy. Change a sour mood: smile and the sweetness returns. Walk and observe: hummingbirds sip from glistening red cherries. Watch the pond: red-winged blackbirds turn up leaves and eat bugs. Smell the air: blackberry vines,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3528],"class_list":["post-63045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-poetry2020halfmarathondirections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63374,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63045\/revisions\/63374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}