{"id":507,"date":"2019-08-29T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T09:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/shapesandletters\/?p=507"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:30:25","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be Cheerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome to Reasons to be Cheerful\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/355120903?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reasons to be Cheerful<\/a> is a brilliant project from artist and musician David Byrne:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We tell stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful. Many of these reasons come in the form of smart, proven, replicable solutions to the world\u2019s most pressing problems. We\u2019re here to tell you about some of them. Through sharp reporting, our stories balance a sense of healthy optimism with journalistic rigor, and find cause for hope. We are part magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reasonstobecheerful.world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons to be Cheerful is a brilliant project from artist and musician David Byrne: We tell stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful. Many of these reasons come in the form of smart, proven, replicable solutions to the world\u2019s most pressing problems. We\u2019re here to tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,54,71],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-editorial","tag-optimism","tag-solutions","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapes-and-letters.surfacepressure.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}