{"id":260,"date":"2016-01-17T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalwelfaresolutions.net\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-01-17T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T19:31:04","slug":"happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalwelfaresolutions.net\/blog\/happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is how we feel about our life,<br \/>\nabout the accomplishment of strife.<br \/>\nIt ranges on a scale from extremely high to utterly low<br \/>\nthe latter is a problem though.<br \/>\nFor scaling happiness down<br \/>\nmakes us morally frown.<br \/>\nIt is bad<br \/>\nto make others sad.<br \/>\nThat is true<br \/>\nfor animals too.<br \/>\nWhat makes me happy<br \/>\nis to see<br \/>\nothers do<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s good for you<br \/>\noh dearest to my heart,<br \/>\nanimals receiving their rightful part.<\/p>\n<p>See also &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/animalwelfaresolutions.net\/webshop\/product\/happiness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Happiness<\/a>&#8216; in our value shop.<\/p>\n<p>Add:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004S7SJNG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004S7SJNG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=a09698b5-20&amp;linkId=5JIYTGFFMNUDRVJR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B004S7SJNG&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=a09698b5-20\" alt=\"Add: Animal Happiness, by Vicki Hearne (link to Amazon)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=a09698b5-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004S7SJNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=a09698b5-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B004S7SJNG&amp;asins=B004S7SJNG&amp;linkId=7ZSZ3P47BYNVLWA5&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is how we feel about our life, about the accomplishment of strife. 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