{"id":499,"date":"2015-01-27T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T21:11:00","slug":"good-health-write-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"So it&#8217;s good for my health to write blog posts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/19\/writing-your-way-to-happiness\/?ref=health&amp;_r=2\">Writing your way to happiness<\/a>, Tara Parker-Pope [New York Times article]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">The scientific research on the benefits of so-called expressive writing is surprisingly vast. Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0005789406000487\">improve mood disorders<\/a>, help reduce symptoms <a href=\"http:\/\/jco.ascopubs.org\/content\/early\/2014\/01\/21\/JCO.2013.50.3532.abstract\">among cancer patients<\/a>, improve a person\u2019s health after a heart attack, reduce doctor visits and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11561925\">boost memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Now researchers are studying whether the power of writing \u2014 and then rewriting \u2014 your personal story can lead to behavioral changes and improve happiness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess I should keep doing this writing thing then&#8230;for the good of my health. =)<\/p>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing your way to happiness, Tara Parker-Pope [New York Times article] The scientific research on the benefits of so-called expressive writing is surprisingly vast. Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can improve mood disorders, help reduce symptoms among cancer patients, improve a person\u2019s health after a heart attack, reduce doctor visits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So it&#8217;s good for my health to write blog posts!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[170,396],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-self-awareness","tag-health","tag-writing","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}