{"id":318,"date":"2003-11-15T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=318"},"modified":"2003-11-15T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T17:47:00","slug":"106891842060446674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/106891842060446674\/","title":{"rendered":"106891842060446674"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practiceofpeace.com\">Practice of Peace<\/a> conference last week, there was a lot of laughing going on.  There was an offering on <a href=\"http:\/\/pop.bigmindcatalyst.com\/cgi\/bmc.pl?node=5588&amp;range=first\">laughing as practice<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjerulf.com\/journal\/00000288.htm\">Alexander Kjerulf offered a session<\/a> that, from my vantage point through a window, looked like a battle between two sides of hysterical fighters, trying to out-joy each other.  <\/p>\n<p>And now comes news from <a href=\"http:\/\/ming.tv\/flemming2.php\/__show_article\/_a000010-000935\/\">Flemming Funch<\/a> that an Ethiopian man named Gima Belachew <a href=\"http:\/\/ming.tv\/flemming2.php\/__show_article\/_a000010-000935\/\">has broken his own laughing record.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story is quite a read, including this great quote:<\/p>\n<div>We are living full of stress&#8230; Natural disasters, economical, political, social problems&#8230; My aim is to minimise this stress. Please let us communicate by smiling,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our slogan is &#8216;laughter, love, peace for all human beings&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Practice of Peace conference last week, there was a lot of laughing going on. There was an offering on laughing as practice, and Alexander Kjerulf offered a session that, from my vantage point through a window, looked like a battle between two sides of hysterical fighters, trying to out-joy each other. And now comes news from Flemming Funch that an Ethiopian man named Gima Belachew has broken his own laughing record. The story is quite a read, including this great quote: We are living full of stress&#8230; Natural disasters, economical, political, social problems&#8230; My aim is to minimise &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-58","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}