{"id":12983,"date":"2020-02-11T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:25:08","slug":"valentines-day-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/valentines-day-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BY DOVE<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12984\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/laughing-heart-400x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"176\" \/>remember the first Valentine I received from my husband of 56 years. We were young and in college and we had been dating only a couple of weeks. The card said, \u201dI like you better than chocolate-covered Easter bunnies and boy do I like chocolate-covered Easter bunnies!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It made me laugh. Laughter in a relationship is a blessing. It can dispel a tense moment because it changes the energy, raises the frequency of the moment. For Valentine\u2019s Day this year, try a little loving laughter.<\/p>\n<p>A very wise old man explained to me that you should always marry someone you love talking to, because when you get to be old, talking is what you have that still works.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this Valentine\u2019s Day the gift of laughter. Remember the laughter you have shared with your partner. Fill your heart with memories of laughter. Maybe write them down. Make a card that reminds your partner of different times you belly laughed together.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but I want to belly laugh every day. It clears my energy from the bottom of my feet clear out the top of my head. What a gift that is!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that genuine, kind laughter is one of the few energies that come straight from your higher self? It can\u2019t be faked. It reminds me of a joke I actually told while speaking at a funeral of a dear friend. \u201cFour Catholic ladies were having coffee and bragging about their children. The first lady says, You know, my son is a priest and when anyone greets him they call him \u201cFather.\u201d The second lady says, Well, you know my son is a Bishop and everyone calls him \u201cYour Grace.\u201d The third lady says, Well, my son is a Cardinal and everyone bows to him and asks to kiss his ring. The forth lady chimes in and says, Well, my son is a male stripper and whenever he walks on stage, everyone says, \u201cOh My God!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope this brings you some laughter and much love on this Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Life is a gift. The purpose is joy. Find yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY DOVE remember the first Valentine I received from my husband of 56 years. We were young and in college and we had been dating only a couple of weeks. The card said, \u201dI like you better than chocolate-covered Easter bunnies and boy do I like chocolate-covered Easter bunnies!\u201d It made me laugh. Laughter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commentary","8":"category-inspirations-from-my-heart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}