{"id":46271,"date":"2022-02-12T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46271"},"modified":"2022-02-12T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:56:34","slug":"happy-is-not-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/02\/12\/happy-is-not-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy is not a word."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>I am sorry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sorry that I can&#8217;t tell you how happy I feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s, eh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever words come up, even the grandest of them, just pale in comparison with the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They just lack the aliveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s like catching love in a fortune cookie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or trying to explain what it feels like to hold your baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing the first kiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Words, words, words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wordswordswordswordswords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JOY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So utterly incapable, and powerless, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So not, it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, just look at my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a happy face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No words needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @rd421, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry. I am sorry that I can&#8217;t tell you how happy I feel. It&#8217;s. It&#8217;s, eh. I can&#8217;t. Whatever words come up, even the grandest of them, just pale in comparison with the experience. They just lack the aliveness. It&#8217;s like catching love in a fortune cookie. Or trying to explain what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46273,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46271\/revisions\/46273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}