{"id":10847,"date":"2013-12-05T21:29:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10847"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:29:22","slug":"money-can-buy-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10847","title":{"rendered":"Money Can Buy Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness.html\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting idea. Want to give it a try? Here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/salarmywichita.theangelgivingtree.org\"  title=\"Virtual Angel Tree\" target=\"_blank\">Salvation Army&#8217;s Virtual Angel Tree<\/a>. You can also participate in the program by visiting the public Angel Trees at the mall &#8212; Towne East and Towne West. Make someone&#8217;s day and make yourself happy in the process too. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/11143600323\"  title=\"BaWpLyhIMAAwq-Z by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2884\/11143600323_65c2b106de.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"500\" alt=\"BaWpLyhIMAAwq-Z\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know because I got an iron for Cecilia and a can opener for LaShellia. And, every time I post something on Freecycle or give something away some other way, I feel good. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m not the only one this works on. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s worth a shot. Do something special for someone and see how you feel afterward. I challenge you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting idea. Want to give it a try? Here&#8217;s a link to the Salvation Army&#8217;s Virtual Angel Tree. You can also participate in the program by visiting the public Angel Trees at the mall &#8212; Towne East and Towne West. Make someone&#8217;s day and make yourself happy in the process too. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,262],"tags":[2231,74,1419,1891,2490,2232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}