{"id":117,"date":"2008-07-25T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T20:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-08-28T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T19:47:27","slug":"wallowing-in-unhappiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/wallowing-in-unhappiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallowing in Unhappiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per <a title=\"whiskey river: Vernon Howard on unhappiness\" href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriver.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/as-incredible-as-it-sounds-unhappy-man.html\" target=\"_blank\">whiskey river<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship. <em>&#8211; <a title=\"Wikipedia, on Vernon Howard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernon_Howard\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Howard<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar? It will if you listen in on enough writerly conversation: it&#8217;s the sound of writers who aren&#8217;t writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per whiskey river: As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship. &#8211; Vernon Howard Sound familiar? It will if you listen in on enough writerly conversation: it&#8217;s the sound of writers [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,1393,5],"tags":[178,248,249],"class_list":{"0":"post-117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ruminations","7":"category-whiskey-river-runningaftermyhat","8":"category-06_writing","9":"tag-whiskey-river","10":"tag-vernon-howard","11":"tag-unhappiness","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}