{"id":7876,"date":"2012-02-17T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:45:44","slug":"it-makes-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7876","title":{"rendered":"It makes me happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a conversation this morning with a colleague, and she said that she&#8217;d wanted to check with me before taking a particular decision, to make sure I&#8217;d be happy with it.<\/p>\n<p>We then had a few tongue in cheek exchanges on the idea of making making other people happy, and soon I found myself saying the following sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;It makes me happy that it makes you happy to make me happy to make you happy.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I realized that I meant every word.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a conversation this morning with a colleague, and she said that she&#8217;d wanted to check with me before taking a particular decision, to make sure I&#8217;d be happy with it. We then had a few tongue in cheek exchanges on the idea of making making other people happy, and soon I found &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It makes me happy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}