{"id":41833,"date":"2012-03-16T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41833"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:26:08","slug":"children-may-be-the-greatest-vehicle-to-unhappiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41833","title":{"rendered":"Children May Be The Greatest Vehicle To Unhappiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Parents should not rely on their children to make them happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you want your parents to rely on you for their happiness? Isn&#8217;t it liberating to know that they have their own independently happy lives?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People think children are the greatest vehicle to happiness. It&#8217;s not true. Children may be the greatest vehicle to unhappiness. I wish I had six kids. It did not work out that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unhappy children, or bad children, are a vehicle to unhappiness more than wonderful children are a vehicle to happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;Parents should not rely on their children to make them happy.&#8221; &#8220;Do you want your parents to rely on you for their happiness? Isn&#8217;t it liberating to know that they have their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41833\">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":[4,5769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-happiness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41833","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=41833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41834,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41833\/revisions\/41834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}