{"id":13950,"date":"2009-11-26T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13950"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:43:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:43:50","slug":"happy-happiest-day-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/26\/happy-happiest-day-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Happiest Day of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least it is according to words referencing happy and unhappy states in our Facebook status updates:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13953\" title=\"happiness_facebook_4mkip08h4k8wscss8gscsk4wo_8td8r2s3w1cs4kksc4okksgg8_th\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/11\/happiness_facebook_4mkip08h4k8wscss8gscsk4wo_8td8r2s3w1cs4kksc4okksgg8_th.jpg\" alt=\"happiness_facebook_4mkip08h4k8wscss8gscsk4wo_8td8r2s3w1cs4kksc4okksgg8_th\" width=\"545\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/11\/happiness_facebook_4mkip08h4k8wscss8gscsk4wo_8td8r2s3w1cs4kksc4okksgg8_th.jpg 545w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/11\/happiness_facebook_4mkip08h4k8wscss8gscsk4wo_8td8r2s3w1cs4kksc4okksgg8_th-500x244.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably just an artifact of people using the word &#8220;grateful&#8221; because they&#8217;re supposed to.\u00a0 Then again, maybe being reminded to be grateful really does make people happy for a day.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/usa_gnh\/?_fb_fromhash=9229a923ed77cf1fc76374bd85617304\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2009\/10\/05\/facebook-measures-happiness-in-status-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowing Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least it is according to words referencing happy and unhappy states in our Facebook status updates: It&#8217;s probably just an artifact of people using the word &#8220;grateful&#8221; because they&#8217;re supposed to.\u00a0 Then again, maybe being reminded to be grateful really does make people happy for a day. Source: Facebook via Flowing Data. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Lisa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,254,274,290],"class_list":["post-13950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emotion","tag-holidays","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51141,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions\/51141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}