{"id":1211,"date":"2017-03-03T06:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2017-03-03T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T06:43:10","slug":"week-129-wanted-happyness-spreaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Week #129 &#8211; WANTED: Happyness Spreaders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1214\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1214 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2-300x198.jpg?resize=300%2C198\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2.jpg?resize=768%2C506&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2.jpg?resize=1024%2C674&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2.jpg?resize=624%2C411&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SpreadHappyness-a2.jpg?w=1283&amp;ssl=1 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spread Happyness! (photo credit: Grace Church)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Week #129 &#8211; WANTED: Happyness Spreaders!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greetings, Happyness Tribe!<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s post about Stephanie Jones&#8217; &#8220;Giving Challenge&#8221; reminded me about one of the things I love most about this blog: sharing OTHER people&#8217;s stories!<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0went back through my posts\u00a0&#8212; all 128 weeks &#8212; and singled out\u00a0the ones that I dubbed &#8220;Happyness in Action&#8221; and collected them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?page_id=1194\">one page<\/a> of my website. \u00a0Stories like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=717\">Week #62 &#8211; Express Yourself!!! (Happyness in Action &#8212; with Scott Cuzzo)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=729\">Week #63 &#8211; Toys for Trucks?! \u00a0(Happyness in Action &#8212; with Amy Wood-Oblen)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=739\">Week #64 &#8211; Random Acts of Kindness (Happyness in Action &#8212; with Kindness for Christopher)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=756\">Week #65 &#8211; Spread the Warmth (Happyness in Action &#8212; with Aubrey McCarrick)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=775\">Week #66 &#8211; Spread the Love (Happyness in Action &#8212; with Sarah Harmeyer)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1084\">Week #114 &#8211; Spread Kindness! \u00a0(Donate Pajamas &#8212; with Kindness for Christopher)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1109\">Week #116 &#8211; Monster Trucks for Toys (Happyness Revisited &#8212; with Amy Wood-Oblen)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1117\">Week #117 &#8211; Send Happy Mail! \u00a0(Happyness in Action &#8212; with Renee Eisman)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1131\">Week #118 &#8211; Spread the Love! (Happyness Revisited &#8212; with Neighbor&#8217;s Table)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1200\">Week #128 &#8211; Take the Giving Challenge! (Happyness in Action &#8211; with Stephanie L. Jones)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reading back through the stories reminded me of how energizing\u00a0it is to learn about others who get are not only inspired\u00a0to\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Spread Happyness &#8212; but TAKE ACTION to\u00a0Spread Happyness to others!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, i<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">f you know\u00a0someone who embodies\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=709\">Happyness in Action<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; someone who has stepped up and Spread Happyness in the face of a challenge, or who&#8217;s taken that step beyond wishing or complaining and took action\u00a0to benefit others &#8212; I want to hear from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Your Happyness Challenge for the week ahead: HAPPYNESS HUNTING!<\/strong>\u00a0 Be on the lookout for those who are Spreading Happyness in your communities. \u00a0Read the stories above for an idea of what to look for. \u00a0And then, let me know about it! \u00a0You can email me directly at grace@spreadhappyness.com &#8212; or tell me about your nomination in the comments and I&#8217;ll contact you to find out more (and maybe feature them in a blog post)!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spread Happyness &#8212;\u00a0nominate and celebrate a Happyness Spreader you know this week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>3\/3\/17 by Grace Church<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 Grace Church<br \/>\ngrace@spreadhappyness.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week #129 &#8211; WANTED: Happyness Spreaders! 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I\u00a0went back through my posts\u00a0&#8212; all 128 weeks &#8212; and singled out\u00a0the ones that I dubbed &#8220;Happyness in Action&#8221; and collected [&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-1211","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\/1211","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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}