{"id":1333,"date":"2012-09-05T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:24:39","slug":"an-argument-disguised-as-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html","title":{"rendered":"An Argument Disguised as Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sipping coffee, chatting with friends, we were all in agreement that the economy is depressing.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the de-caffeinated coffee that woke me up but an epiphany\u2014Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The agreeable conversation was really an argument against my own happiness. I was blindly arguing for depression.<\/p>\n<p>I know better.<\/p>\n<p>The economy can\u2019t affect my happiness. God created happiness. God created me to express happiness. Love makes me happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sipping coffee, chatting with friends, we were all in agreement that the economy is depressing. Wake up. It wasn\u2019t the de-caffeinated coffee that woke me up but an epiphany\u2014Christ. The agreeable conversation was really an argument against my own happiness. I was blindly arguing for depression. I know better. The economy can\u2019t affect my happiness.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[599,598,600,597],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community_world","category-home-life","tag-be-happy","tag-beating-depression","tag-coffee-tastes","tag-decaffeinated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Argument Disguised as Agreement - Everyday Spirituality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Argument Disguised as Agreement - Everyday Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sipping coffee, chatting with friends, we were all in agreement that the economy is depressing. Wake up. It wasn\u2019t the de-caffeinated coffee that woke me up but an epiphany\u2014Christ. The agreeable conversation was really an argument against my own happiness. I was blindly arguing for depression. I know better. The economy can\u2019t affect my happiness.&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Everyday Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-05T15:31:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-10-19T12:24:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cheryl Petersen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cherylpetersen\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An Argument Disguised as Agreement - Everyday Spirituality","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An Argument Disguised as Agreement - Everyday Spirituality","og_description":"Sipping coffee, chatting with friends, we were all in agreement that the economy is depressing. Wake up. It wasn\u2019t the de-caffeinated coffee that woke me up but an epiphany\u2014Christ. The agreeable conversation was really an argument against my own happiness. I was blindly arguing for depression. I know better. The economy can\u2019t affect my happiness.&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html","og_site_name":"Everyday Spirituality","article_published_time":"2012-09-05T15:31:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-10-19T12:24:39+00:00","author":"Cheryl Petersen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cherylpetersen","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html","name":"An Argument Disguised as Agreement - Everyday Spirituality","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-09-05T15:31:32+00:00","dateModified":"2016-10-19T12:24:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#\/schema\/person\/5f61c15bc03b38172723cefb1475d1bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/09\/an-argument-disguised-as-agreement.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"An Argument Disguised as Agreement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/","name":"Everyday Spirituality","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Cheryl Petersen","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#\/schema\/person\/5f61c15bc03b38172723cefb1475d1bb","name":"Cheryl Petersen","description":"Cheryl Petersen engages and advances divine Science, interpreting harmony to the universe. Cheryl's book is, \"21st Century Science and Health.\"","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.HealingScienceToday.com","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/healingsciencetoday\/","https:\/\/x.com\/cherylpetersen"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/author\/cherylpetersen"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}