{"id":2459,"date":"2017-09-08T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/the-best-medicine\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:11:51","slug":"the-best-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/blog\/the-best-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ben-white-131245-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3805\" src=\"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ben-white-131245-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"artcred\">\n\tWords: <span style=\"color: #ca877f;\"><a style=\"color: #ca877f;\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"> Cassie Rumsey<\/a><\/span>\n\t<br\/>\n\tPhoto credit: <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Ben White<\/a><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA day without laughter is a day wasted\u201d \u2014 Charlie Chaplin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love all the different types of laughter. From innocent giggles to belly laughs, silent chuckles to joyful roars, there\u2019s just something magically contagious about them all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all been there. Your abs burn, making you feel like you just did fifty crunches; your cheeks are on fire; mascara runs down your face; you double over falling to your knees and you just. Cant. Stop. Laughing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you\u2019re able to pull yourself together and take that first full deep breath, wiping the tears from your cheeks. You look over at your friend who is doing the same. You both smile at each other and the same thought crosses your mind \u2014 man, that felt <em>good<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GRA0317_IFC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GRA0317_IFC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"941\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"artcred\">Photo credit: <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Doyle<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.\u201d \u2013 Stephen Chbosky | <a href=\"https:\/\/stampington.com\/Bella-Grace-Issue-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issue 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There have been times when laughter has brought me so much joy during a terrible day, times when it has lightened a solemn mood in a room full of people, or times when it has created moments of bonding, as a friend and I spend minutes just laughing hysterically over who knows what.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel that my closest friends are the ones I laugh with the most. To me, laughter means comfort. It means being able to relax and escape from reality for just a moment. The stresses of the day are lifted off my shoulders. There\u2019s no worry in the world as I\u2019m consumed with a blissful moment of freeing joy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is no question in my mind why they say laughter is the best medicine. It\u2019s because it really is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>When is the last time you had a good laugh?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cA day without laughter is a day wasted\u201d \u2014 Charlie Chaplin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}