{"id":4155,"date":"2016-01-02T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:00:52","slug":"what-happiness-is-for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/what-happiness-is-for-the-record\/","title":{"rendered":"What happiness is, for the record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HappinessIsDeanMartin.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4156\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HappinessIsDeanMartin.jpeg\" alt=\"HappinessIsDeanMartin\" width=\"352\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HappinessIsDeanMartin.jpeg 352w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HappinessIsDeanMartin-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HappinessIsDeanMartin-300x298.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a>Once Schulz had established that &#8220;Happiness is a Warm Puppy&#8221;, many other folks decided to put down their own descriptors. The Beatles famously indicated that &#8220;Happiness is a Warm Gun&#8221;, and as we&#8217;ve covered here before, Johnny Carson opined that &#8220;Happiness is a Dry Martini&#8221;. But it wasn&#8217;t until just the other day that I learned that Dean Martin had staked his own claim in this discussion in 1967, by releasing an album that declared via its very title that\u00a0<em>Happiness is Dean Martin<\/em>. And who could argue with that?<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean that Dean Martin is, mathematically speaking, a warm puppy? Well, the Beagle Freedom Project made sure that was the case when they <a href=\"http:\/\/dogtime.com\/trending\/19847-victory-for-laboratory-beagles-and-the-organization-trying-to-save-them\">named a\u00a0former research beagle after the singer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This album was re-released on CD in 2009, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B0000631PO\">still available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Schulz had established that &#8220;Happiness is a Warm Puppy&#8221;, many other folks decided to put down their own descriptors. The Beatles famously indicated that &#8220;Happiness is a Warm Gun&#8221;, and as we&#8217;ve covered here before, Johnny Carson opined that &#8220;Happiness is a Dry Martini&#8221;. But it wasn&#8217;t until just &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}