{"id":20917,"date":"2022-11-28T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20917"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T01:21:47","slug":"what-is-the-secret-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/11\/28\/what-is-the-secret-to-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the secret to happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW112822-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW112822-3.jpg\" alt=\"What is the secret to happiness?\" class=\"wp-image-20908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW112822-3.jpg 315w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AW112822-3-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What is the secret to happiness?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing still. But remember, you&#8217;re asking a wall. My favorite aphorism is &#8220;Don&#8217;t just do something, stand there!&#8221; I know you humans move around a lot, so perhaps human happiness has to do with stillness when it&#8217;s called for and movement when it&#8217;s called for. The Greeks called it Kairos. In the Bible you&#8217;ll find an apt &amp; well-known description in Ecclesiastes 3 that was set to music by Pete Seeger: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/turn-seeger-collins\">bit.ly\/turn-seeger-collins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing still. But remember, you&#8217;re asking a wall. My favorite aphorism is &#8220;Don&#8217;t just do something, stand there!&#8221; I know you humans move around a lot, so perhaps human happiness has to do with stillness when it&#8217;s called for and movement when it&#8217;s called for. The Greeks called it Kairos. In the Bible you&#8217;ll find &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/11\/28\/what-is-the-secret-to-happiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the secret to happiness?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20923,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}