{"id":4458,"date":"2011-09-19T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:39:12","slug":"hectors-and-the-search-for-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/09\/hectors-and-the-search-for-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hector And The Search For Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/9781906040239.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/9781906040239.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"9781906040239\" width=\"200\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4459\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI have just finished a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/reviews\/hector-and-the-search-for-happiness-by-francois-lelord-1951338.html\">Hector And The Search For Happiness<\/a> and one of the findings was happiness is gained by spending time with people you care about. <\/p>\n<p>So when the long suffering one asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday this year I said \u2018simple, get all the people I don\u2019t see enough of into one room for food and drink.\u2019<br \/>\nThis was about 3 days ago so as the email went out I wasn\u2019t sure who would be able to make it. <\/p>\n<p>Well with a few exceptions they could make it.  To the tune of 30 folk.<br \/>\nThrilled.<br \/>\nSpent Saturday cooking up a feast and then Sunday eating and drinking it.<br \/>\nWhat a joy.<br \/>\nEvery single one of those people I love dearly  and we had a high old time.<br \/>\nThough as David ran of to the offy half way through the afternoon with a \u2018Gawd I\u2019d forgotten how much they all drink!\u2019 Lunch started a 1pm and went on til midnight. <\/p>\n<p>So Hector And The Search for Happiness?<br \/>\nWell quite simply \u2013spending time with people you care about and they care about you?<br \/>\nIt works.<br \/>\nEnd of.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished a book called Hector And The Search For Happiness and one of the findings was happiness is gained by spending time&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}