{"id":1496,"date":"2017-11-17T03:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:28:27","slug":"week-166-seven-weeks-to-happyness-it-feels-like-you-have-forever-you-dont-jocheryl-holcombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Week #166 &#8211; Seven Weeks to Happyness:\u00a0&#8220;It feels like you have forever&#8230;you don&#8217;t.&#8221; (JoCheryl Holcombe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1504\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wk-166-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1504\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1504 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wk-166-1-270x300.jpg?resize=270%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wk-166-1.jpg?resize=270%2C300&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wk-166-1.jpg?resize=624%2C693&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wk-166-1.jpg?w=647&amp;ssl=1 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(JoCheryl Holcombe via Facebook on 11\/15\/17)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Week #166 &#8211; Seven Weeks to Happyness: &#8220;It feels like you have forever&#8230;you don&#8217;t.&#8221; (JoCheryl Holcombe)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">I&#8217;m counting down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1484\">the last ten Fridays of 2017<\/a> &#8212; and today, as we head into Thanksgiving Week, I&#8217;m simply going to quote JoCheryl Holcombe, who lost EIGHT family members (TEN if you include an unborn child and a close family friend) in the Sutherland Springs, Texas shooting earlier this month on November 5th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An acquaintance of mine is friends with her and shared her Facebook post from this past Wednesday, November 15th &#8212; the day her town gathered together to celebrate the lives of the Holcombe and Hill families that were killed en masse just ten days before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see JoCheryl&#8217;s public message on FB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jo.cheryl.7\/posts\/10208874204967329\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t possibly add anything to that &#8212; except to agree and share it with you. \u00a0As you gather together with family this week &#8212; if you get along or you don&#8217;t get along &#8212; remember, it may feel like you have forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You don&#8217;t. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(But then again, you do!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Happyness Challenge\u00a0for the week ahead is this quote from JoCheryl Holcombe:<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>&#8220;So, when you think of those you love and it feels like you have forever, just remember you don&#8217;t, but then again, YOU DO! make this life matter, our soul is the only thing we take with us when we are done&#8230;it&#8217;s worth tending, it&#8217;s worth making meaningful deep connections and living each moment in the fullest most meaningful way. BECAUSE everything can change in a holy instant\u00a0<span class=\"_47e3 _5mfr\" title=\"heart emoticon\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebook.com\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/f6c\/1\/16\/2764.png?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>&#8221;<br \/>\n(JoCheryl Holcombe via Facebook &#8212; 11\/15\/17)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spread Happyness &#8212;\u00a0make your moments matter! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And Have a Happy Thanksgiving Week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>11\/17\/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 #166 &#8211; Seven Weeks to Happyness: &#8220;It feels like you have forever&#8230;you don&#8217;t.&#8221; (JoCheryl Holcombe) I&#8217;m counting down the last ten Fridays of 2017 &#8212; and today, as we head into Thanksgiving Week, I&#8217;m simply going to quote JoCheryl Holcombe, who lost EIGHT family members (TEN if you include an unborn child and a [&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-1496","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\/1496","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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}