{"id":243,"date":"2014-04-30T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/?p=243"},"modified":"2014-05-28T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:49:21","slug":"great-news-from-a-happiness-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/2014\/04\/30\/great-news-from-a-happiness-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Great News from a Happiness Study!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Going to the library gives people the same kick as getting a raise does \u2014 a \u00a31,359 ($ 2,282) raise, to be exact \u2014 according to a study commissioned by the U.K.&#8217;s Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport. The study, which looks at the ways &#8220;cultural engagement&#8221; affects overall wellbeing, concluded that a significant association was found between frequent library use and reported wellbeing. The same was true of dancing, swimming and going to plays. The study notes that &#8220;causal direction needs to be considered further&#8221; \u2014 that is, it&#8217;s hard to tell whether happy people go to the library, or going to the library makes people happy. But either way, the immortal words of Arthur the Aardvark ring true: &#8220;Having fun isn&#8217;t hard when you&#8217;ve got a library card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/files\/2014\/04\/13.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-278\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/files\/2014\/04\/13.png\" alt=\"13\" width=\"216\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link to the article is as follows:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/04\/24\/306415439\/book-news-study-says-library-trips-can-make-you-happy-as-a-pay-raise<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the news NPR! We knew there was something to this book thing all along. Now we have a study to back what our gut feeling was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Going to the library gives people the same kick as getting a raise does \u2014 a \u00a31,359 ($ 2,282) raise, to be exact \u2014 according to a study commissioned by the U.K.&#8217;s Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport. The study, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/2014\/04\/30\/great-news-from-a-happiness-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Great News from a Happiness Study!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"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,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","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\/p71zRv-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/loupcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}