{"id":9114,"date":"2019-01-02T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:19:27","slug":"happiness-is-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2019\/01\/02\/happiness-is-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Because I&#8217;m happy;\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM\">Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I occasionally review how I am using social media. For years now, I worry about how I leverage social signaling. (<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/economics-and-the-internet\/social-signalling-55b3af9f87fe\">read more<\/a>) There is an awareness of the temptation to make myself appear more successful than I am. And that excessive signaling on social media contributes to chronic depression.<\/p>\n<p>When I see friends posting a lot of happiness, I start to wonder if they are actually depressed. Is that smile genuine? Are the eyes engaged in that smile?<\/p>\n<p>Some comments about how my family looks so very happy put in front of my face: are we? Yeah, we really are. Sure, we have challenges like everyone. But, on balance, I love the life I have and find it so much more fulfilling than my life a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m happy;\u00c2\u00a0Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth I occasionally review how I am using social media. For years now, I worry about how I leverage social signaling. (read more) There is an awareness of the temptation to make myself appear more successful than I am. And that excessive signaling on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[462],"tags":[3405,3407,417,3406,994,3404],"class_list":["post-9114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-depresssion","tag-genuine","tag-happiness","tag-smile","tag-social-media","tag-social-signaling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2n0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}