{"id":230,"date":"2019-09-13T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/?p=230"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:02:57","slug":"to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/to-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-230-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Willy-Grigg-ToBeHappy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Willy-Grigg-ToBeHappy.mp3\">http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Willy-Grigg-ToBeHappy.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This song was written for Sarah &amp; Zach on the occasion of their marriage August 31, 2019. Sarah is my niece. She stayed with us a couple summers while she was doing an internship in Rapid City. She was and is an absolute joy. Lucia and Gianna adore her!<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks before the wedding, Sarah asked Jenny if I would write and perform a song at the wedding. Luckily, inspiration came. Here it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To Be Happy by Willy Grigg 8\/20\/19<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I don\u2019t care which way you voted<br \/>\nOr if you\u2019re on the winning side<br \/>\nI don\u2019t care which school you went to<br \/>\nI don\u2019t care what car you drive<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re happy with you, that\u2019s what matters to me<br \/>\nAnd you can be rich, or you can live in a ditch<br \/>\nJust be happy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You don\u2019t get too many chances<br \/>\nTo be so young and so in love<br \/>\nYou\u2019re going into the deep forest<br \/>\nYou hope you\u2019re strong enough<br \/>\nTo look into the darkness<br \/>\nAnd face the thing you most fear<br \/>\nAnd spread out your wings<br \/>\nAnd risk everything to be happy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The time has come and now you\u2019re standing<br \/>\nYou say you\u2019ll be brave, you say you\u2019ll be true<br \/>\nBe true to your spouse and your family<br \/>\nAnd the little voice inside of you<br \/>\nSo go out and get it, nothing stands in your way<br \/>\nIt wouldn\u2019t be to extreme<br \/>\nTo go and follow your dreams and be happy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_hammer.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-234\" src=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_hammer-173x300.png\" alt=\"sarah_zach_hammer\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_hammer-173x300.png 173w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_hammer-127x220.png 127w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_hammer.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_crop.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-236\" src=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_crop-167x300.png\" alt=\"sarah_zach_crop\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_crop-167x300.png 167w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_crop-122x220.png 122w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sarah_zach_crop.png 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarah_Gianna_Lucia.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarah_Gianna_Lucia-212x300.png\" alt=\"Sarah_Gianna_Lucia\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarah_Gianna_Lucia-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarah_Gianna_Lucia-155x220.png 155w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sarah_Gianna_Lucia.png 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This song was written for Sarah &amp; Zach on the occasion of their marriage August 31, 2019. Sarah is my niece. She stayed with us a couple summers while she was doing an internship in Rapid City. She was and is an absolute joy. Lucia and Gianna adore her! A couple weeks before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs-by-willy-grigg","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}