{"id":7335,"date":"2011-11-29T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T09:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7335"},"modified":"2011-11-29T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T09:40:26","slug":"how-old-are-you-how-happy-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7335","title":{"rendered":"How old are you? How happy are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular sections of my web site is the page entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Happy.html\">&#8220;How To Be Happy&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0It&#8217;s also the section of the site that generates the most e-mails. Many readers seem to find the advice useful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m struck though by how many of the writers are in their teens or 20s. In fact, many studies have shown that a major factor in individual happiness is age. If one plots age against self-reported well-being, a distinct U-bend is seen.\u00a0From late teens to mid 40s, happiness falls and then rises constantly as age increases.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the graph and an explanation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17722567\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular sections of my web site is the page entitled &#8220;How To Be Happy&#8221;.\u00a0It&#8217;s also the section of the site that generates the most e-mails. Many readers seem to find the advice useful. I&#8217;m struck though by how many of the writers are in their teens or 20s. In fact, many [&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-7335","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\/7335","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=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7339,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions\/7339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}