{"id":6969,"date":"2016-06-28T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2016-06-23T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T04:22:15","slug":"laughter-is-always-the-very-best-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/laughter-is-always-the-very-best-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughter is always the very best medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago when my daughter Ashley was in high school she tore her ACL playing basketball and had to have surgery. We rented a hospital bed for her recovery so she could be out in the family room where everyone hung out and watched TV together. One day my husband and I came in the room to find her laughing hysterically at an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants. It was so funny to see her laughing alone in the room that I snuck my cell phone out and started recording her. Here is the video I shot &#8211; it has become one of my favorite videos of all time!:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YbceKHB6MnE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is something so contagious about a good laugh! As you see in the video I couldn\u2019t help but start laughing to and then my husband finally couldn\u2019t help but join in too.<\/p>\n<p>A good laugh is so awesome. It lifts everyone up and makes everyone feel good. It truly is the best medicine for all of life\u2019s ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Today go find something that makes you laugh! Then laugh out loud and don\u2019t hold back!! And before you know it people around you will join in too\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Have a laughter filled day!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago when my daughter Ashley was in high school she tore her ACL playing basketball and had to have surgery. We rented a hospital bed for her recovery so she could be out in the family room where everyone hung out and watched TV together. One day my husband and I came in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10243,395,500,101,1327,46,60,240,224,1245,10242,96,551,51,189,132,13,30,76,244,65,55,180,1768,629,464,181,87,6126,10245,187,1738,264,112,355,81,5137,10244,149,347,1649],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acl-tear","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciation","tag-ashley","tag-ashley-lewis","tag-attitude","tag-beautiful","tag-children","tag-confidence","tag-contagious","tag-contagious-laughter","tag-culture","tag-daughter","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-gift","tag-goals","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-hospital","tag-inspiration","tag-joy","tag-laugh","tag-laughter","tag-laughter-is-the-best-medicine","tag-make-me-laugh","tag-recover","tag-recovery","tag-rollin","tag-self-improvement","tag-silly","tag-smile","tag-sponge-bob","tag-sponge-bob-square-pants","tag-success","tag-surgery","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/6974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}