{"id":6747,"date":"2013-03-07T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2024-07-06T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:10:09","slug":"if-ignorance-is-bliss-why-arent-more-people-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6747","title":{"rendered":"If Ignorance Is Bliss Why Aren&#8217;t More People Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IfIgnoranceIsBliss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6748\" title=\"If Ignorance Is Bliss Why Aren't More People Happy?\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IfIgnoranceIsBliss-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"If Ignorance Is Bliss Why Aren't More People Happy?\" width=\"801\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IfIgnoranceIsBliss-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IfIgnoranceIsBliss-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IfIgnoranceIsBliss.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom my email footer:<br \/>\nOur ignorance and lack of self-discipline are our two most formidable enemies.<br \/>\nWhat we don&#8217;t know and what we know we should do but do not discipline<br \/>\nourselves to do are two things that will kill us. Gradually or suddenly.<br \/>\nSelf-discipline is a skill. Just like any skill, it improves with practice.<br \/>\nOn what are you going to practice yours today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my email footer: Our ignorance and lack of self-discipline are our two most formidable enemies. What we don&#8217;t know and what we know we should do but do not discipline ourselves to do are two things that will kill us. Gradually or suddenly. Self-discipline is a skill. Just like any skill, it improves with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6747\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If Ignorance Is Bliss Why Aren&#8217;t More People Happy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54897,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions\/54897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}