﻿{"id":2960,"date":"2010-07-06T21:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T20:47:50","slug":"you-cant-keep-everybody-happy-all-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t keep everybody happy all of the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and I&#8217;ve really upset an e-mail correspondent who has just sent me these comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Happy.html\">a section of my web site<\/a> that normally receives very positive feed-back:<\/p>\n<div lang=\"x-western\">\n<table style=\"height: 722px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"478\">\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">I&#8217;ve just read your article (titled &#8220;HOW TO BE HAPPY&#8221;)<br \/>\nand boy does it really suck&#8230;BIG times<\/p>\n<p>I tried to apply it by starting to listen to one of your music recommendations &#8220;Beethoven Symphony No.9&#8221; ..it sucks, doesn&#8217;t even manage to put a hint of a smile on my face even Lacrimosa by Mozart has more depth and cheerful atmosphere than what you suggested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Read a quality newspaper on a daily basis&#8221;&#8230;.realy?! and does reading about wars and death reports make someone happy by what mean?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go out and see a good movie&#8221;&#8230;hmmm..maybe I&#8217;ll agree with you 5 years ago but now every damn movie is forcing 3D on us even if its realy sucky and stupid movie like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland (to name a few), but as long as its 3D its considered super cool by ignorant regular movie goers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stretch yourself geographically&#8221;..advising individuals to walk or even pass by strange and unfamiliar locations even at his\/her own time could lead to his\/her sudden disappearance or maybe worse.. gotten killed .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have a political vision&#8221;.. since when getting stressed and involving one self in a net of lies and shit would make anyone happy? are you sure your are writing an article on &#8220;HOW TO BE HAPPY&#8221; or on &#8220;HOW TO BE MISERABLE&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>have a religious faith<\/strong>. (I can&#8217;t. I believe that this life is all  there is &#8211; so, all the more reason to make it happy). &#8220;&#8230;.you freaking bastard, you can&#8217;t give people an advice that you your sad-ill-self can NOT follow\/apply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(1) These are suggestions for you to pick and choose if you want to be  happier than perhaps you have been. This is not a list that you have to  follow in order to be happy. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>heh, what to follow on the first place, its all weak advices written by some amateur<br \/>\nand so unoriginal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and I&#8217;ve really upset an e-mail correspondent who has just sent me these comments on a section of my web site that normally receives very positive feed-back: I&#8217;ve just read your article (titled &#8220;HOW TO BE HAPPY&#8221;) and boy does it really suck&#8230;BIG times I tried to apply it by starting to listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}