{"id":380,"date":"2007-03-04T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T09:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=380"},"modified":"2007-03-04T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T09:43:14","slug":"how-to-be-happy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"How to be happy (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;The Secret&#8217; is a feature length, historic and factually based account of an age old secret, said to be 4000 years in the making, and known only to a fortunate few. &#8216;The Secret&#8217; promises to reveal this great knowledge to the world &#8211; The Secret to wealth, The Secret to health, The Secret to love, relationships, happiness, eternal youth&#8230; The Secret to life itself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the offer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecret.tv\/home.html\">the web site<\/a> of a documentary which the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; has described as &#8221; the biggest thing to hit the New Age movement since the Harmonic Convergence&#8221;.  The secret that the movie purports to reveal is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_of_Attraction\">&#8220;the law of attraction&#8221;<\/a>. This holds that the universe will make your wishes come true if only you really, truly believe in them.<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m a great believer in self-affirmation, self-belief and positive thinking  (I just wish that I could practice them better) which is why I send out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Thoughts.html\">&#8220;Thought For The Week&#8221;<\/a>. However, to suggest that there is a physical law which enables thinking to change the universe is utter rubbish and totally unsupported by evidence &#8211; but an idea that millions worldwide are apparently prepared to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;The Secret&#8217; is a feature length, historic and factually based account of an age old secret, said to be 4000 years in the making, and known only to a fortunate few. &#8216;The Secret&#8217; promises to reveal this great knowledge to the world &#8211; The Secret to wealth, The Secret to health, The Secret to love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","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\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}