{"id":1435,"date":"2026-04-12T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/happiness-things-things-of-happiness\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:51:36","slug":"happiness-things-things-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/happiness-things-things-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness things. Things of happiness."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happiness of things? Happiness in things? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day, we do things, experience things, say things, see things, hear things, smell things, taste things, and more. Which of these things is eligible? The definition of a noun is &#8220;a person, place, or thing&#8221;. This implies that a thing can&#8217;t be a person or a place. Does &#8220;thing&#8221; have to be a noun? Can it be a verb? Is a verb a thing? Is breathing (a verb) a thing? I feel like &#8220;thing&#8221; is quite broad. But perhaps that&#8217;s intentional? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 things, then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Breathing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thinking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eating<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comfort<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Love<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Alright, that&#8217;s it. A goodnight rambling of no significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? Happiness of things? Happiness in things? Every day, we do things, experience things, say things, see things, hear things, smell things, taste things, and more. Which of these things is eligible? The definition of a noun is &#8220;a person, place, or thing&#8221;. This implies that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,227,228],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-dailyprompt","tag-dailyprompt-1906","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-n9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}