{"id":13710,"date":"2009-12-02T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T02:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13710"},"modified":"2009-12-02T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T07:31:00","slug":"a-happy-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13710","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager said on his radio show yesterday: &#8220;It is so good for you to see the many ways to lead a life. It&#8217;s good to be challenged. Do they do this better there? Are there billboards different? We don&#8217;t have as many AIDS billboards here as they do in Africa for good reason. Do people smile?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could stick me in a place and not tell me where it is and I could tell you in an hour whether or not it is a happy country. I watch people&#8217;s faces. It has nothing to do with the affluence level&#8230; The reason people are depressed in Zimbabwe is not just because of poverty but because of the lack of opportunity. Hope, not status, is what gives people happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager said on his radio show yesterday: &#8220;It is so good for you to see the many ways to lead a life. It&#8217;s good to be challenged. Do they do this better there? Are there billboards different? We don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20227,6930,29761,18255,1453],"class_list":["post-13710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-affluence","tag-billboards","tag-dennis-prager","tag-good-reason","tag-radio-show"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}