{"id":5290,"date":"2010-03-23T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:31:42","slug":"my-laugh-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/my-laugh-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My laugh list"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/flickr\/photo\/194833380\/jonathan-and-laurie.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Jonathan and Laurie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/59\/194833380_356b4125f6.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan and Laurie\" width=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan and Laurie (one of our very first photos together)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reba Kennedy at <a href=\"http:\/\/everydaysimplicity.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/make-yourself-laugh-list-before-you.html\">Everyday Simplicity<\/a> suggested this past week that everyone needs a laugh list.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve found that all the bad stuff stops me from laughing, and if I start laughing, with even a mild giggle, then those bad feelings evaporate away.  Poof!  And I&#8217;m free to enjoy the rest of my day.  Getting stuff done &#8212; instead of spending wasted energy on bad emotions\/bad attitudes.  Casting my cares.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, as a matter of preparedness, I offer&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Jonathan&#8217;s Laugh List<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reflections\/mi-familia\/why-im-laughing-this-afternoon\/\">The mental image<\/a> I have of our two foster boys sleeping in their beds, laying on their bellies, with their butts sticking high in the air.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0780618556?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0780618556\">Dumb and Dumber<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009W5J1O?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0009W5J1O\">Tommy Boy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/take-action\/politics\/colbert-at-the-white-house-correspondants-dinner\/\">Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Episodes of <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dthe%2520office%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">The Office<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0025KVKBQ?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0025KVKBQ\">Better Off Ted<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dscrubs%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddvd&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">Scrubs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dthe%2520simpsons%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddvd&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">The Simpsons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So that&#8217;s my brief list. What about you? What&#8217;s on your list?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reba Kennedy at Everyday Simplicity suggested this past week that everyone needs a laugh list. I&#8217;ve found that all the bad stuff stops me from laughing, and if I start laughing, with even a mild giggle, then those bad feelings evaporate away. Poof! And I&#8217;m free to enjoy the rest of my day. Getting stuff &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/my-laugh-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My laugh list<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[3404,3090,3405,526,3406,325],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-laugh","tag-laughing","tag-laughter","tag-list","tag-prepare","tag-sorrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1nk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}