{"id":1344,"date":"2008-11-17T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2008-11-17T18:48:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T23:48:28","slug":"3-things-that-cheer-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/17\/3-things-that-cheer-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Things That Cheer Me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:0LPPINdhASLI0M:http:\/\/msp193.photobucket.com\/albums\/z18\/138patricia\/happy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>After <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1343\">that last post<\/a>, I thought I owed you all an upper.  So here are three things that cheer ME up:<\/p>\n<p>1.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happinessproject.typepad.com\/\">The Happiness Project<\/a>, a blog based on a forthcoming memoir about the year Gretchen Rubin spent &#8220;test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study I could find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah&#8221; ; The Happiness Project (just the name makes me happy!) gathers these rules for living and reports on &#8220;what works and what doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.&#8221;  On this daily blog, Gretchen recounts some of her adventures and insights as she grapples with the challenge of being happier.  Happy that, Gretchen!<\/p>\n<p>2.  These cool fora (as in plural of forum, not as in &#8220;flora&#8221; with a typo) that I&#8217;ve been working on for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrw.org\/ncrwbigfive\/?page_id=20\">National Council for Research on Women&#8217;s new blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrw.org\/ncrwbigfive\/transition-forum-recap\">Messages to the Transition Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrw.org\/ncrwbigfive\/updates-from-the-swing-states\">Views from the Swing States<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrw.org\/ncrwbigfive\/our-experts-sound-off-on-health\">Improving Women&#8217;s Health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>3. GWP&#8217;s new intern, <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=299\">Melinda Parrish, aka formerly Girl Sailor,<\/a> who you will be hearing more about\/from soon.\u00c2\u00a0 Welcome, Mel! We&#8217;re so excited to have you here!!!!<\/p>\n<p>(Note, I did not say <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1316\">my kitten.<\/a>  Oops, I guess I just did.  Hopeless am I.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After that last post, I thought I owed you all an upper. So here are three things that cheer ME up: 1. The Happiness Project, a blog based on a forthcoming memoir about the year Gretchen Rubin spent &#8220;test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study I could find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21195],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}