{"id":3977,"date":"2014-07-23T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2014-07-26T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:34:31","slug":"3977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/3977\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A baby smiles between 50-70 times a day, and a toddler approximately 600 times according to research (!)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes.<br \/>\nWhat robs us of it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Goldie Hawn<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I had never been a fan of Goldie Hawn, having assumed she&#8217;s a ditzy frothy air-headed blonde but I think I was wrong.<br \/>\nLike so many things, things are not as they appear &#8211; the proverbial, &#8220;never judge a book by its cover&#8221; lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what&#8217;s the answer?  It&#8217;s a multiple choice test:)<\/p>\n<p>A.  Stress<br \/>\nB.  Judgement\/Prejudice<br \/>\nC.  Fear<br \/>\nD.  Aging &#8211; hardened arteries, hardened heart.<br \/>\nE.  None of the Above.<br \/>\nF.  All the Above.<br \/>\nG.  Some combo &#8211; you tell me. Oh, yes, I forgot another one, i.e., &#8220;guilt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Was a bit surprised with this and took notice of the opener that said the stop will be &#8220;brief&#8217;&#8230; still, impressed with Fukushima version of &#8220;Happy&#8221;&#8230; :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pharrell Williams - HAPPY (Fukushima, Japan) #happyfukushima #happyday\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-pk8z8rX2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So A-F; Stress; Judgement; Fear; Aging process or that de-ja-vu auto-pilot mode&#8230;and maybe feelings of guilt (How could I be smiling when so and so is suffering so much) I believe that with yoga, you can address them all. I feel compelled to share that belief so we can all be more &#8220;happy&#8221; &#8230; and hope that even at times of distress or misery&#8230;even in that &#8220;mud&#8221;, we can appreciate the lotus flower blossoming like a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby smiles between 50-70 times a day, and a toddler approximately 600 times according to research (!) I&#8217;m sure some of us have asked ourselves where that smile goes. What robs us of it? &#8211; Goldie Hawn I had never been a fan of Goldie Hawn, having assumed she&#8217;s a ditzy frothy air-headed blonde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}