{"id":1871,"date":"2013-04-05T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2013-04-05T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:54:49","slug":"laugh-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2013\/04\/laugh-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As a student of life, showing up everyday is a great way to learn.\u00a0 Here on this planet there have been many lessons to learn, and some to re-learn, and others still learning.\u00a0 I am good with that.\u00a0 But by observing things the writer has noticed that many people take life way to serious.\u00a0 Where did the laughter go? IS life really this serious?\u00a0 Now realizing that all of us go through periods, we have moments of struggle, pain, and yet where is the laughter? Laughter always sneaks up on you.\u00a0 I have been learning some new things on my job.\u00a0 Yesterday, I caught myself rushing, as I did that, I hit my toe. And for no reason what so ever just started laughing.\u00a0 Because what was I rushing for, I will get when I need too, when it happens.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the day I gave up taking myself so serious.\u00a0 It felt good to just laugh.\u00a0 Kids laugh 100\u2019s of times a day, adult only about 15 times a day. Pretty funny right?\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe us adults can start learning from our teachers, life and kids.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Friday, the weekend is here, and when work is done, it\u2019s the weekend, so the invitation is to laugh lots today, and see how that changes your day. Laughter is the best medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2013\/04\/laughing_baby.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1872\" title=\"laughing_baby\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2013\/04\/laughing_baby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Friday, the weekend is here, and when work is done, it&#8217;s the weekend, so the invitation is to laugh lots today, and see how that changes your day. Laughter is the best medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,359,1283,360,932,725],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-matthew-brown","tag-laugh","tag-laughing-lots","tag-laughter","tag-naked-mystic","tag-wrestling-with-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}