{"id":527,"date":"2014-04-09T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/?p=527"},"modified":"2014-04-22T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T12:39:34","slug":"happy-makes-us-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/2014\/04\/09\/happy-makes-us-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;Happy&#8217; makes us happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/23\/Pharrell_Williams_-_Happy.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Yesterday&#8217;s <em>Guardian<\/em> featured an article asking the experts why Pharell Williams&#8217;s single &#8216;Happy&#8217; works so well.\u00a0 Southampton&#8217;s own Andy Fisher, Head of Commercial Composition, provided<br \/>\nan analysis of the musical basis of the song&#8217;s appeal &#8211; check it out <a title=\"Guardian Happy article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/musicblog\/2014\/apr\/08\/pharrell-williams-happy-single\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the video of &#8216;Happy&#8217; for anyone who needs cheering up today.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6Sxv-sUYtM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=51&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Guardian featured an article asking the experts why Pharell Williams&#8217;s single &#8216;Happy&#8217; works so well.\u00a0 Southampton&#8217;s own Andy Fisher, Head of Commercial Composition, provided an analysis of the musical basis of the song&#8217;s appeal &#8211; check it out here. And here&#8217;s the video of &#8216;Happy&#8217; for anyone who needs cheering up today. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6494,643730,66718],"tags":[643733,643732,643731],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-pop","category-staff","tag-andrew-fisher","tag-happy","tag-pharell-williams","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-8v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}