{"id":1915,"date":"2010-12-24T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2011-01-12T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:28:46","slug":"too-often-we-underestimate-the-power-of-a-touch-a-smile-a-kind-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/too-often-we-underestimate-the-power-of-a-touch-a-smile-a-kind-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or\ufeff the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.\u201d &#8211; Leo F. Buscaglia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/giving-back-day-11-be-happy\/\">Day 11 of Giving Back<\/a>, we talked about emotional contagion and how happiness spreads from person to person. In the spirit of spreading happiness, we wanted to share the video below. The look on baby Jonathan&#8217;s face when he hears his mother&#8217;s voice for the first time is sure to bring a smile to your face.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"575\" height=\"456\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZDD7Ohs5tAk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>From our family to yours, we wish you the Happiest Holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or\ufeff the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.\u201d &#8211; Leo F. Buscaglia On Day 11 of Giving Back, we talked about emotional contagion and how happiness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/too-often-we-underestimate-the-power-of-a-touch-a-smile-a-kind-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[106,348],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","tag-emotional-contagion","tag-happiness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BBCq-uT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}