{"id":153,"date":"2006-09-09T04:52:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.142.75.173\/~trekkie1\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-09-09T04:52:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T04:52:25","slug":"laugh-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/2006\/09\/09\/laugh-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh Out Loud!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another post ruthlessly stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarksthescot.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=20727\">X-marks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>It allows us to be creative and to work harder but more comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>It decreases isolation. Laughter allows us to bond with other people and ease our loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s contagious. Laughter creates laughter. Allowing laughter to swell into a movement across the land would reduce our growing anger and violence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s universal. Everybody can laugh. Human beings are born with the gift of laughter. A sense of humor is not necessary to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>It reduces aggression and conflict. People laughing are unable to hold each other at sword point. Some how there is no longer a point, only acceptable differences.<\/p>\n<p>It relieves anxiety. One cannot laugh and be afraid simultaneously. It&#8217;s physically impossible. <\/p>\n<p>Laughter also shrinks the source and size of our fears.<\/p>\n<p>Above all else, it&#8217;s fun. It gives us back our playfulness, a characteristic of all mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Laughter is a natural, physical process which releases pain, physically and emotionally. It is part of the body&#8217;s biological drug store.<\/p>\n<p>Introduce more laughter in your life and revel in the opportunity to need fewer or no drugs at all to revel in the experience of your everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another post ruthlessly stolen from X-marks: It allows us to be creative and to work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}