{"id":151,"date":"2008-06-20T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T11:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/06\/happy-first-day-of-summer.html"},"modified":"2008-06-20T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T11:26:50","slug":"happy-first-day-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/06\/happy-first-day-of-summer.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy first day of summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself strangely sad, with inexplicable urges to overeat and overspend, it might be the fear of death that&#8217;s getting you down. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/587626\">a study<\/a> publicized a few weeks ago in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/being-human\/mg19826583.900-thoughts-of-death-make-us-eat-more-cookies.html\">New Scientist<\/a>, &#8220;research demonstrates that exposure to death-related stimuli can increase consumers&#8217; amounts of purchasing and consumption.&#8221; Or, &#8220;Thoughts of death make us eat more cookies.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut don&#8217;t fret. Today is one of the happiest days of the year &#8212; and, like yesterday, falls into the category of\u00a0 &#8220;days that should be national holidays but aren&#8217;t:&#8221; it&#8217;s the summer solstice! (Or it will be tomorrow, depending on what part of the northern hemisphere you&#8217;re in.) 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