{"id":154,"date":"2016-09-02T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-09-02T22:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T08:03:34","slug":"the-oatmeal-being-perfectly-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/the-oatmeal-being-perfectly-unhappy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oatmeal &#8212; Being Perfectly Unhappy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/unhappy\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/unhappy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This crossed my news feed recently and while not directed at depression specifically I think it helps illustrate some of the difficulty of anhedonia quite well.<\/p>\n<p>The uplift is there at times but for the most part it&#8217;s just sort of that dull flat emotional state. It&#8217;s hard to illustrate that to most folks, most folks just figure &#8220;you&#8217;re happy or you&#8217;re sad&#8221;. The layers of gray to me are much more varied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/unhappy This crossed my news feed recently and while not directed at depression specifically I think it helps illustrate some of the difficulty of anhedonia quite well. The uplift is there at times but for the most part it&#8217;s just sort of that dull flat emotional state. It&#8217;s hard to illustrate that to most folks, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/the-oatmeal-being-perfectly-unhappy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Oatmeal &#8212; Being Perfectly Unhappy&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-2u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}