{"id":8585,"date":"2020-07-31T22:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2020-07-31T22:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:24:23","slug":"practicing-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8585","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Sunim-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Sunim-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Sunim-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Sunim-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Sunim-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before you lay your head on your pillow and go to sleep,<br \/>\nrecall just three things you were thankful for today.<br \/>\nIf you continue to do this for two months,<br \/>\nyou will see an increase in your level of happiness,<br \/>\nbecause instead of focusing on what is wrong with your life,<br \/>\nyou will develop a habit of looking for what is good.<br \/>\nA happy mind-set needs practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Haemin Sunim, <em>Love for Imperfect Things<\/em>, p. 66<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  South Riding, Virginia, July 2, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you lay your head on your pillow and go to sleep, recall just three things you were thankful for today. If you continue to do this for two months, you will see an increase in your level of happiness, because instead of focusing on what is wrong with your life, you will develop a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","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=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8622,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}