{"id":24371,"date":"2019-03-20T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T07:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24371"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T07:51:50","slug":"how-to-be-happy-today-and-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24371","title":{"rendered":"How to be happy &#8211; today and always"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today it is the the annual celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/happinessday.org\">International Happiness Day<\/a>.  So, how can we be happy (or at least happier). I offer two resources: one professional, the other personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my web site, I&#8217;ve reviewed several excellent books on happiness. One is <strong>&#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0by Sonja Lyubomirsky and at the core of this book are 12 specific happiness-enhancing activities. You can check out her advice in my review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#HOH\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some time ago, I attempted myself to pull together a set of suggestions &#8211; some more light-hearted than others &#8211; on <strong>&#8220;How To Be Happy&#8221;<\/strong> and this is a popular page on my web site. You can read my ideas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Happy.html\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a happy day and a happy life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it is the the annual celebration of International Happiness Day. So, how can we be happy (or at least happier). I offer two resources: one professional, the other personal. On my web site, I&#8217;ve reviewed several excellent books on happiness. One is &#8220;The How Of Happiness&#8221;\u00a0by Sonja Lyubomirsky and at the core of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24371"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24379,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371\/revisions\/24379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}