{"id":19543,"date":"2013-06-06T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19543"},"modified":"2013-06-06T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:16:09","slug":"happiness-gurus-commit-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/happiness-gurus-commit-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness gurus commit suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2336427\/Happiness-gurus-commit-double-suicide-Brooklyn-apartment.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suicide notes were found with the bodies of a couple who took their own lives last week, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Rosen, 46, and John Littig, 48, who worked as &#8216;happiness gurus&#8217; and motivational speakers, allegedly left two notes at their home in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;..]<\/p>\n<p>They hosted a monthly radio show together called &#8216;The Pursuit of Happiness&#8217; on WBAI-FM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sad but fitting metaphor for the land that has enshrined the <i>pursuit of happiness<\/i> in its Declaration of Independence. There is nothing that makes happiness more elusive than pursuing it.<\/p>\n<p>As William Blake observed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He who binds to himself a joy<br \/>\nDoes the winged life destroy;<br \/>\nBut he who kisses the joy as it flies<br \/>\nLives in eternity&#8217;s sun rise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Suicide notes were found with the bodies of a couple who took their own lives last week, police sources said. Lynne Rosen, 46, and John Littig, 48, who worked as &#8216;happiness gurus&#8217; and motivational speakers, allegedly left two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/happiness-gurus-commit-suicide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[842,1497],"class_list":["post-19543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-happiness","tag-suicide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}