{"id":25896,"date":"2020-07-01T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:43:22","slug":"why-governments-should-care-more-about-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2020\/07\/01\/why-governments-should-care-more-about-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Governments Should Care More about Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Greater Good Magazine,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>April 5, 2019<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sherif Arafa&nbsp;asks pioneering psychologist Ed Diener to help explain&nbsp;how policymakers can facilitate the pursuit of happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ready full story (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/why_governments_should_care_more_about_happiness\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Good Magazine,&nbsp;April 5, 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sherif Arafa&nbsp;asks pioneering psychologist Ed Diener to help explain&nbsp;how policymakers can facilitate the pursuit of happiness&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25896","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\/25896","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123115,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions\/123115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}