{"id":70,"date":"2012-04-30T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-04-30T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:14:32","slug":"the-happiness-of-melancholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"The happiness of melancholy:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m crazy about the famously melancholic singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who has probably never written a single song outside the minor key.\u00a0 When I listen to Cohen&#8217;s musings on love, loss and yearning, I feel happy. But it&#8217;s not an exultant kind of happiness. It feels more like a marvelling at the fragile beauty of the human condition, and a pleasure in having someone articulate it so sensitively.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kindlepost.co.uk\/2012\/04\/happiness-introvert-style.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I would add &#8211; this is why it is so essential to sing songs of lament in church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m crazy about the famously melancholic singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who has probably never written a single song outside the minor key.\u00a0 When I listen to Cohen&#8217;s musings on love, loss and yearning, I feel happy. But it&#8217;s not an exultant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=70\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-18","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}