{"id":277,"date":"2020-04-29T02:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T14:55:04","slug":"the-science-of-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/the-science-of-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adela, for most of our friendship there has been a consistent\ntheme, one of the few things I ask from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not nudes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ask for you to smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And like everything I do there are multiple reasons behind\nmy request that we should unpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, you are absolutely at your most beautiful when you smile a real smile. Your eyes sparkle, your face glows from within. No woman I have ever known lights up like you do and is as radiant as you are when you show that you are happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now unfortunately you are not happy, and that deeply saddens me because I truly do want you to be happy, even if I don\u2019t see it.\u00a0 But that leads into a scientific reason that I ask you to smile. The psychosomatic reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of me trying to pull research from disparate sources, watch this TED Talk on why smiling is important to your health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The hidden power of smiling | Ron Gutman\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9cGdRNMdQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I want you to want to smile, even if I don&#8217;t get to see it Adela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adela, for most of our friendship there has been a consistent theme, one of the few things I ask from you. Not nudes \ud83d\ude09 I ask for you to smile. And like everything I do there are multiple reasons behind my request that we should unpack. First, you are absolutely at your most beautiful when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SmileSciencePic.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}