{"id":7414,"date":"2008-11-24T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2008-11-24T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T23:33:12","slug":"what-happy-people-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7414","title":{"rendered":"What Happy People Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/20\/health\/research\/20happy.html?em\">From the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers &mdash; but they don&rsquo;t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s what unhappy people do.<\/p>\n<p>Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people, said John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/university_of_maryland\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about University of Maryland\">University of Maryland<\/a> and the author of the study, which appeared in the journal Social Indicators Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers &mdash; but they don&rsquo;t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That&rsquo;s what unhappy people do. Although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7414\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5769],"tags":[14449,14447,750,14446,14448],"class_list":["post-7414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","tag-john-robinson","tag-reading-newspapers","tag-rsquo","tag-social-indicators-research","tag-watching-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414","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=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}