{"id":192,"date":"2020-08-19T18:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/?p=192"},"modified":"2024-12-11T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T01:08:18","slug":"where-is-happiness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2020\/08\/19\/where-is-happiness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Matt_DevilsLake_83-670x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Matt_DevilsLake_83-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Matt_DevilsLake_83-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Matt_DevilsLake_83.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Originally, this appeared at www.endsite.com. The first web site in our family. It is from a collection of street poems written by Matthew Vrtis. The site is being remodeled, and I wanted to make sure that at least this one didn&#8217;t get lost. Every time I read it, I get reminded to not get caught up in WANTING to be happy instead of BEING happy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone once asked me where they could find happiness.<br>I told them &#8220;right here&#8221;<br>and showed them a penny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember once,<br>when I was little<br>and we were moving<br>and all my toys were packed,<br>I had nothing to do.<br>So my folks gave me a<br>dish full of<br>pennies<br>to play with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pushing the pennies around on the carpet<br>making different shapes with them<br>by arranging them in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can find Happiness in little, insignificant things,<br>You can find it anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally, this appeared at www.endsite.com. The first web site in our family. It is from a collection of street poems written by Matthew Vrtis. The site is being remodeled, and I wanted to make sure that at least this one didn&#8217;t get lost. Every time I read it, I get reminded to not get caught &#8230; <a title=\"Where Is Happiness\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2020\/08\/19\/where-is-happiness-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Where Is Happiness\">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":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matt","tag-matts-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}