{"id":1855,"date":"2009-08-06T09:13:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T13:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2009-08-06T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T13:14:28","slug":"the-bright-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/the-bright-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bright Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Nikki put a new ring-tone on her phone which has been invading our brains regularly (every time she gets a Facebook notification, actually).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s &#8220;Always look on the bright side of life&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian\" target=\"_blank\">Monty Python&#8217;s Life of Brian<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It fits right into our personal life philosophy of &#8220;find the happy, it&#8217;s there if you look&#8221; that we are trying to impart on the kids.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not empty optimism really, but rather that a positive outlook usually helps in every situation, no matter how bleak.\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody wants to hear you bitch, nobody cares if you aren&#8217;t actively fixing the problem, so get up and get to work.\u00c2\u00a0 Working on a problem feels good, if you feel good you smile, and things get better. It&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we were trying to explain where this song came from to Jordy, and we ended up watching this together last night.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1loyjm4SOa0<\/p>\n<p>Which led to this:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE<\/p>\n<p>Epic comedy, brilliant, timeless and silly.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me happy, which in turn makes it easier to always look on the bright side.\u00c2\u00a0 Go get yourself some happy, dammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Nikki put a new ring-tone on her phone which has been invading our brains regularly (every time she gets a Facebook notification, actually).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s &#8220;Always look on the bright side of life&#8221; from Monty Python&#8217;s Life of Brian.\u00c2\u00a0 It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/the-bright-side\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[166,165],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","tag-a-late-parrot","tag-pining-for-the-fjords"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}