{"id":1036,"date":"2009-05-04T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2009-05-04T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:27:06","slug":"michael-j-fox-praises-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/michael-j-fox-praises-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J Fox Praises Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Bhutan celebrates it\u2019s one year anniversary as a democracy, ABC will be airing a special, &#8220;Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist&#8221; on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>On the show, Fox, who suffers from Parkinson\u2019s disease, traveled around the world interviewing optimists. One of his favorite stops was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/bhutan\/\">Bhutan<\/a>, dubbed the happiest place on earth by many visitors &#8211; because locals live in a state of permanent joy.  In Bhutan, a country which measures its success with a figure for &#8220;Gross National Happiness&#8221; instead of Gross National Product, Fox revealed that his symptoms actually eased during his visit.  When questioned about his impression of the people of Bhutan, the film and television star was quoted as saying, \u201cThey really are (the happiest people). It&#8217;s amazing. They&#8217;re just beautiful people. I don&#8217;t know whether it was the altitude or the thinning of the blood or whatever, but I had much less symptoms,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>For many years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/\">The California Native<\/a> has been offering private tours of this magical Himalayan kingdom.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bhutan celebrates it\u2019s one year anniversary as a democracy, ABC will be airing a special, &#8220;Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist&#8221; on May 7. On the show, Fox, who suffers from Parkinson\u2019s disease, traveled around the world interviewing optimists. One of his favorite stops was Bhutan, dubbed the happiest place on earth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/michael-j-fox-praises-bhutan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael J Fox Praises Bhutan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[246,33,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}