{"id":2245,"date":"2016-01-07T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:28:05","slug":"joyful-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2016\/01\/07\/joyful-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that 2016 will bring you joy and that you will have the opportunity to bring joy to others!<\/p>\n<p>Joie means joy in french. This nice picture from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hermartwork\" target=\"_blank\">David Hermans<\/a> express the wish well.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2246\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2016\/01\/07\/joyful-year\/2016-david-hermans-joie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/2016-David-Hermans-Joie.jpg?fit=600%2C776&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,776\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2016-David-Hermans-Joie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/2016-David-Hermans-Joie.jpg?fit=600%2C776&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2246\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/2016-David-Hermans-Joie.jpg?resize=600%2C776&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2016-David-Hermans-Joie\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/2016-David-Hermans-Joie.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/2016-David-Hermans-Joie.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that 2016 will bring you joy and that you will have the opportunity to bring joy to others! Joie means joy in french. This nice picture from David Hermans express the wish well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNjQG-Ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1891,"url":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2014\/06\/17\/la-joie\/","url_meta":{"origin":2245,"position":0},"title":"Joy","author":"Alexis","date":"June 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Douglas McGregor presented his theory Y by stated this belief: \"work can be as natural as play and rest.\" Richard Sheridan, co-founder, and CEO of Menlo Innovations, explains that the Joy, he is talking about in his book Joy, Inc. is this kind of joy. 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