{"id":9569,"date":"2010-12-17T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2010-12-03T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:17:25","slug":"happiness-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/happiness-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Happiness.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9687\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Happiness.jpg?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Happiness.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Happiness.jpg?w=709&amp;ssl=1 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hector is a Parisian psychiatrist who has a bit of a crisis of psychiatric faith; his patients and their trivial complaints\u00a0have\u00a0begun to\u00a0wear on him. The novel <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2277509\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Hector and the Search for Happiness<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Francois Lelord is the story of\u00a0Hector&#8217;s travels around the world (China, Africa and the United States). From each experience he learns something more about happiness. His list includes, &#8220;Making comparisons can spoil your happiness&#8221; and &#8220;Happiness is doing a job you love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This follows the study-of-happiness trend set by Eric Weiner&#8217;s\u00a0 travelogue, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2029545\" target=\"_blank\">The Geography of Bliss<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/2009\/01\/the-armchair-traveler-returns-with-the-geography-of-bliss-by-eric-weiner\/\" target=\"_blank\">(see previous blog post). <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And more recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2284956\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Thrive:\u00a0Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong> Dan Buettner, like Weiner, searches the world (Denmark, Mexico, Singapore and others) for secrets to happiness. San Luis Obispo, California is singled out as a city that made conscious decisions about\u00a0favoring pedestrians,\u00a0no smoking\u00a0zones\u00a0and building a greenbelt\u00a0 years ago. This\u00a0 has\u00a0produced a healthier, happier city (ranked first in well-being according to a recent survey).<\/p>\n<p>No excuses then\u00a0for being down in the dumps, when there&#8217;s a wealth of research telling you how (and where) you can be happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hector is a Parisian psychiatrist who has a bit of a crisis of psychiatric faith; his patients and their trivial complaints\u00a0have\u00a0begun to\u00a0wear on him. The novel Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord is the story of\u00a0Hector&#8217;s travels around the world (China, Africa and the United States). From<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/happiness-is\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[10],"tags":[1455,1454,362],"class_list":["post-9569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bliss","tag-blue-zones","tag-happiness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2ul","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}