{"id":167,"date":"2007-10-26T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T01:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/26\/laughter\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T01:15:52","slug":"laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Deliberately using our capacity to be amused is one of many ways we can cleanse the mind of pollutants.\u00c2\u00a0 Laughter is letting go.\u00c2\u00a0 Laughter &#8212; true laughter, laughter that makes us all feel closer as opposed to laughter that makes us feel uneasy and separate &#8212; is instantaneous release of anxiety, discouragement, and all other fragmented states&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children are predisposed to laugh.\u00c2\u00a0 They are pre-amused.\u00c2\u00a0 Because of this, children can often prevent disturbing thoughts from getting a foothold in their minds in the first place.\u00c2\u00a0 Under most circumstances, they instinctively shift their preoccupation from a subject of disstress to a subject of delight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Hugh Prather, <em>The Little Book of Letting Go,<\/em> p. 139<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Deliberately using our capacity to be amused is one of many ways we can cleanse the mind of pollutants.\u00c2\u00a0 Laughter is letting go.\u00c2\u00a0 Laughter &#8212; true laughter, laughter that makes us all feel closer as opposed to laughter that makes us feel uneasy and separate &#8212; is instantaneous release of anxiety, discouragement, and all other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}