{"id":6649,"date":"2014-01-17T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:27:50","slug":"happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6649","title":{"rendered":"Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0114\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7451\/11990079053_f1ae05912b.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7451\/11990079053_f1ae05912b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>That&#8217;s me on the trapeze in all black. That&#8217;s me!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have never been too keen on the whole New Year&#8217;s resolution thing. But that does not mean I completely ignore the feelings of newness that January brings. So while it is less specific than a list of resolutions, I have vowed to <em>do more of what makes me happy<\/em> this year. That&#8217;s all!<\/p>\n<p>What makes me happiest has stayed pretty consistent over my lifetime. Spending time with good friends who are positive and make me laugh\u00a0<em>hard,\u00a0<\/em>getting my hands dirty in the garden, pushing my body physically (something I have just recently gotten back into, and it has made a world of difference. Trapeze class does make me truly happy!), and reading out loud to my kids. Carving out time to do things that make you happy makes you the best version of yourself, I think. And that&#8217;s always something to strive for!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0110\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5533\/11990594266_1f79f33388.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5533\/11990594266_1f79f33388_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0110\" \/><\/a>Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me on the trapeze in all black. That&#8217;s me!!! I have never been too keen on the whole New Year&#8217;s resolution thing. But that does not mean I completely ignore the feelings of newness that January brings. So while it is less specific than a list of resolutions, I have vowed to do more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happiness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[95,48],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood","tag-lauren","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}