{"id":1031,"date":"2016-09-16T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T10:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2016-09-16T01:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T05:26:42","slug":"week-105-another-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Week #105 &#8211; Another Wave!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_647\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/New-Wave.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-647\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-647\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/New-Wave-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"&quot;A New Wave&quot; (photo credit: Grace Church)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/New-Wave.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/New-Wave.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(A gift from Pat &amp; Tom &#8212; photo credit: Grace Church)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Week #105 &#8211; Another Wave!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Greetings Happyness Tribe &#8212; and Welcome to Week #105 and Another Wave of Happyness!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who took time out last week to check in and cheer me on as I closed out the second year of SpreadHappyness.com! \u00a0Your continued encouragement and support is truly appreciated &#8212; and your feedback has been invaluable!!!<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t get a chance, I&#8217;d still love your thoughts and ideas for moving forward: What do you like most\/least? \u00a0What has been most helpful to you or someone else? \u00a0What other content would you like to see? \u00a0How can I make SH better\/more relevant? \u00a0How can SH spread even MORE happyness into the year ahead? \u00a0(You can respond via the comments here, through Facebook, or at the email address below.)<\/p>\n<p>As I turn the corner into &#8220;Year Three&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;m reminded of a lasting refrain I heard from my brother as he faced his\u00a0dire prognosis. \u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Other than wanting\u00a0his life\/health back &#8212; Rob frequently said to me, \u201cGrace\u2026if I get through this, I want to help other people.\u201d \u00a0He expressed genuine gratitude and\u00a0surprise\u00a0that people\u00a0cared enough to\u00a0help him &#8212; and he wanted to return the favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;as I paddle out to catch another wave of Happyness this year, I&#8217;m going to let his words be my guide: &#8220;&#8230;to help other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Happyness Challenge for the Week Ahead: HOW CAN I HELP? \u00a0<\/strong>Is there a topic you&#8217;d like covered, a Happyness Spreader you want celebrated, or some Happyness in Action you want featured?! \u00a0If so, I would love to hear from you! \u00a0You can contact me through the comments, via Facebook, or at the email below.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s catch another wave and SPREAD HAPPYNESS into the year ahead!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spread Happyness &#8212; and tell me, how can I help?!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To Life! \u00a0To Love! \u00a0To Happyness!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>9\/16\/16 by Grace Church<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 Grace Church<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week #105 &#8211; Another Wave! Greetings Happyness Tribe &#8212; and Welcome to Week #105 and Another Wave of Happyness! Thanks to everyone who took time out last week to check in and cheer me on as I closed out the second year of SpreadHappyness.com! \u00a0Your continued encouragement and support is truly appreciated &#8212; and your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}