{"id":234,"date":"2009-04-15T00:38:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-04-15T00:38:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:38:26","slug":"the-pursuit-of-happyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/the-pursuit-of-happyness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 The Pursuit of Happyness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Gardner<\/a><\/strong>: It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?<\/p>\n

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