{"id":298,"date":"2008-10-03T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-10-03T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:56:00","slug":"happiness-makeover-by-m-j-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/10\/happiness-makeover-by-m-j-ryan.html","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Makeover by M. J. Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767920074\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day<\/a> so much that I bought a copy for my boyfriend.  You could call it Buddhism-lite.  Without mentioning Buddhism except in passing, it communicates many of the fundamental tenets that can lead to a more peaceful, contented life.  The chapters are very short, perfect for reading at bedtime or a quick pick-me-up on a bad day.  The writing style is informal and friendly.  This one&#8217;s a keeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked The Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day so much that I bought a copy for my boyfriend. You could call it Buddhism-lite. Without mentioning Buddhism except in passing, it communicates many of the fundamental tenets that can lead to a more peaceful, contented life. The chapters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction","category-psychology","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}