{"id":65,"date":"2011-03-24T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-03-24T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:11:46","slug":"the-greatest-lesson-that-i-have-ever-been-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/2011\/03\/24\/the-greatest-lesson-that-i-have-ever-been-taught\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Lesson that I have ever been taught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest lesson that I have ever had was taught to me by my mother when I was ten or eleven years old.\u00a0 I was taught that when you display emotions, even if you don&#8217;t actually feel the emotion, it can and will rub off on you and everybody around you.\u00a0 For example, if you happen to be in a bad mood, you should try to fake feelings of happiness and smile a lot and look cheerful.\u00a0 Eventually, what will happen is that you will become happy and forget about your bad mood, for the feelings that you are faking will become your real ones.\u00a0 Because moods and emotions are infectious, this also affects other people, and one excited person can create an entire room buzzing with excitement.\u00a0 This is why the emotions that we show are so important, as a single person can greatly affect the moods of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest lesson that I have ever had was taught to me by my mother when I was ten or eleven years old.\u00a0 I was taught that when you display emotions, even if you don&#8217;t actually feel the emotion, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/2011\/03\/24\/the-greatest-lesson-that-i-have-ever-been-taught\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/roberthall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}