{"id":3815,"date":"2014-03-20T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2014-03-21T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:34:31","slug":"dont-worry-be-happy-on-the-international-day-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/3815","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t worry, be&nbsp;#Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <a title=\"International Day of Happiness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/happinessday\">International Day of Happiness<\/a> and it&#8217;s a relatively new &#8220;international day&#8221;. It all started in 2012 when the UN designated March 20th to recognize that happiness and well-being are universal goals and aspirations in everyone&#8217;s lives and its importance in public policy. The most famous country for celebrating happiness is <a title=\"Bhutan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhutan\">Bhutan<\/a> which recognized the supremacy of national happiness over national income since the early 1970s and famously adopted the goal of <a title=\"Gross National Happiness Product\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grossnationalhappiness.com\/\">Gross National Happiness Product<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1140461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3825\" alt=\"P1140461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1140461.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1140461.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1140461-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So when I woke up this morning and found out, I wanted to celebrate the day with a bit of &#8220;happy&#8221; music. Here&#8217;s the YouTube playlist I put together:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLMHcgwqzYVk6rLty2k5aJjXJwBB1rxy90\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Little did I realize that there&#8217;s a campaign by Pharrell Williams and the UN Foundation called the <a title=\"http:\/\/24hoursofhappiness.com\" href=\"http:\/\/24hoursofhappiness.com\">http:\/\/24hoursofhappiness.com<\/a>\/. The website is actually pretty cool because every time you visit the website there&#8217;s a new happy video based on the time zone. There&#8217;s a whole bunch of creative videos from different cities around the world using Pharrell&#8217;s song &#8220;Happy&#8221; &#8211; and I guess you need to have some kind of weird character in the video. Did you spot the happy box guy in this Geneva video?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ydhShEEAI8\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the International Day of Happiness and it&#8217;s a relatively new &#8220;international day&#8221;. It all started in 2012 when the UN designated March 20th to recognize that happiness and well-being are universal goals and aspirations in everyone&#8217;s lives and its importance in public policy. The most famous country for celebrating happiness is Bhutan which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/3815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t worry, be&nbsp;#Happy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[349,350,50,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3828,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions\/3828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}