{"id":509,"date":"2007-03-30T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/03\/30\/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T15:09:38","slug":"always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Always look on the bright side of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bloggers, Carmen at <a href=\"http:\/\/momtothescreamingmasses.typepad.com\/mom_to_the_screaming_mass\/\">Mom to the Screaming Masses  <\/a>told this sweet story on her blog today:<br \/>\n<em>There were two boys who were the subject of an experiment.  One was put into a room with every toy known to children.  The other boy was put into a room full of horse manure.  They were left alone for quite a while, and then the doctor conducting the experiment came to check on them.  He found the boy who was in the room of toys, sitting on the side, looking dejected.  When questioned, he said that the reason he was so upset was that there was no Nintendo DS in the room.  That was his favorite toy.  The doctor went to check on the second boy, and to his suprise, found him jumping around, dancing, singing, laughing and having a grand time.  When questioned as to how he could possibly be so happy in a room filled with horse manure, he responded, &#8220;With this much horse manure, there MUST be a pony in here somewhere!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a nice way to look at things, isn&#8217;t it?  Which reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7HbbUgHNM8Q\">this<\/a> .  And while I was looking for that, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5k4wkBKpWZo\">this<\/a>, which also made me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>So, my message to you today is&#8230;have a wonderful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bloggers, Carmen at Mom to the Screaming Masses told this sweet story on her blog today: There were two boys who were the subject of an experiment. One was put into a room with every toy known to children. The other boy was put into a room full of horse manure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}