{"id":547653,"date":"2018-11-16T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4330a0cf594616b15632ae5e359c8c50"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:40:03","slug":"why-i-quit-my-day-job-researching-happiness-and-started-cycling-to-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=547653","title":{"rendered":"Why I quit my day job researching happiness and started cycling to Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d had enough. It was October 2017, and I&#8217;d been wondering what the point of my job was for far too long, and while I&#8217;m sure there was something meaningful somewhere and to someone in what I was doing day-to-day, it had certainly lost meaning for me. For all the good that writing another academic research paper would do, I thought I might as well be cycling to Bhutan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d had enough. It was October 2017, and I&#8217;d been wondering what the point of my job was for far too long, and while I&#8217;m sure there was something meaningful somewhere and to someone in what I was doing day-to-day, it had certainly lost meaning for me. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547654,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547653\/revisions\/547654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}