{"id":896,"date":"2026-05-08T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=896"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:22:21","slug":"the-strange-road-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"THE STRANGE ROAD TO HAPPINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-897\" style=\"width:626px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png 640w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, this is me reading one of my new board books to my dogs Rudy and Dixie. For those of you in Connecticut, please join me at the<strong> Happiness Community\u00a0<\/strong>f<strong>or our May Happiness Club event\u00a0<br>Wednesday, May 20 at 7 pm\u00a0<br>Hubley Hall, First Congregational Church of Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We welcome local author,<br>\u00a0Jean Baur<\/strong> who will be speaking about: <em>The Strange Road to Happiness<\/em><br><br>Jean Baur, local author and publisher,\u00a0will speak\u00a0at our upcoming May\u00a0Happiness Club meeting. She has written several books for both adults and children, and learned the hard way how to transform rejection and frustration into what she calls &#8220;little books making a big difference.&#8221;<br><br>Personal, funny, and upbeat, you don&#8217;t want to miss this session. Jean&#8217;s books will be on display and for sale after the talk, and you can learn more about her background on her website:\u00a0https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is me reading one of my new board books to my dogs Rudy and Dixie. For those of you in Connecticut, please join me&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}