{"id":102031,"date":"2023-08-21T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=102031"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:45:51","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-live-happily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2023\/08\/21\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-happily\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE HAPPILY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitepinemountain.com\/index.php\">Douglas A. Smith<\/a> is the author of two books \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Happiness-Art-Living-Peace-Confidence\/dp\/0986070807\/ref=pd_sbs_1?pd_rd_w=TglDP&amp;pf_rd_p=c52600a3-624a-4791-b4c4-3b112e19fbbc&amp;pf_rd_r=ECHYCPZ9NVQE18JAJR26&amp;pd_rd_r=f968212a-cab7-449c-9a3e-d9ae1ad3581f&amp;pd_rd_wg=S9r2Q&amp;pd_rd_i=0986070807&amp;psc=1\"><strong><em>Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thriving-Second-Half-Douglas-Smith\/dp\/0986070831\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MGSV9YVDP0T&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=thriving+in+the+second+half+of+life&amp;qid=1611045283&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=thriving+in+the+sec%2Cstripbooks%2C161&amp;sr=1-1&amp;pldnSite=1\"><strong><em>Thriving in the Second Half of Life<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Smith&#8217;s mission is to live and enable others to live joyful, meaningful, accomplished lives, to thrive \u2026 or as the emerging science of positive psychology puts it \u201cto flourish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitepinemountain.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas A. Smith is the author of two books \u2013\u00a0Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy\u00a0and\u00a0Thriving in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-happiness-and-philanthropy"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123131,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102031\/revisions\/123131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}