{"id":756,"date":"2010-08-10T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/take-a-trip-youll-be-happier\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T05:06:00","slug":"take-a-trip-youll-be-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/take-a-trip-youll-be-happier\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a trip, you’ll be happier"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times published an interesting article this weekend about money and happiness<\/a>. Sure, it’s filled with the usual “money can’t buy happiness” stories and tales of self discovery. I think it’s stuff we all know deep down inside but are good at repressing (Gizmodo hasn’t made me happy yet… but it’s my Ike Turner).<\/p>\n

But wait, what’s this? If you dig deep enough you’ll find this little gem:<\/p>\n

Thomas DeLeire, an associate professor of public affairs, population, health and economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, recently published research examining nine major categories of consumption<\/a>. He discovered that the only category to be positively related to happiness was leisure: vacations, entertainment, sports and equipment like golf clubs and fishing poles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now there’s some useful investment advice. It’s time to re-order my priorities.<\/p>\n

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Sure<\/span>, a new computer sounds great… but schnitzel in Austria sounds wonderful right now.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times published an interesting article this weekend about money and happiness. Sure, it’s filled with the usual “money can’t buy happiness” stories and tales of self discovery. I think it’s stuff we all know deep down inside but are good at repressing (Gizmodo hasn’t made me happy yet… but it’s my Ike\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,127],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlelife","tag-money","tag-idletravel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}