{"id":34016,"date":"2019-07-29T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34016"},"modified":"2019-07-28T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T22:01:11","slug":"bookfreak16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bookfreak16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did you know <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-denmark-dominates-the-world-happiness-report-rankings-year-after-year-93542\">Demark is one of the happiest countries<\/a>? One reason is that Danes embrace Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga), a word that means comfort, togetherness, and well-being. In this issue of Book Freak we present Danish secrets to happy living, from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LIDj3C\">The Little Book of Hygge<\/a> by Meik Wiking, and collected by my friend and colleague Claudia Dawson. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Creating hygge at home<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cYou can hygge by yourself. Snuggling up under a blanket with your favorite TV show on a rainy Sunday afternoon is hyggeligt; having a glass of red wine watching a thunderstorm is hyggeligt too, or simply just sitting by the window watching the world go by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prioritize casualness and comfort when socializing<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cMost hyggelige moments seem to be built on a foundation of casualness. In order for you and your guests to be able to hygge, you need to feel relaxed. There is no need to make things formal. Come as you are and be as you are.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>Link purchases with good experiences<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cLink purchases with good experiences. I had saved money for a new favorite chair but waited until I had published my first book to get it. That way, the chair reminds me of something that was an important accomplishment for me. We can apply the same thing to that special sweater or that pair of nice woolen socks. Save for them\u2014but wait until you have that really hyggelig experience: you want to be reminded of it when you pull them on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Danish Secrets to Happy Living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34022,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions\/34022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}