{"id":4576,"date":"2013-02-20T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:20:13","slug":"spokane-the-11th-happiest-city-in-the-nation-if-you-believe-our-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/spokane-the-11th-happiest-city-in-the-nation-if-you-believe-our-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Spokane the 11th-happiest city in the nation&#8212;if you believe our tweets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krem.com\/news\/Spokane-eleventh-happiest-city-according-to-Twitter-study-192048981.html\">Happy and Sad Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spokane has housing market woes, we lost a couple of our big plants, we have a wee problem with unemployment, and we have ongoing controversy with city budget&#8230;but hey, we also have 2 skating rinks, a minor league baseball team, hockey, arena football, college teams of all sorts, ski and crosscountry venues an easy drive from downtown, a waterfall and park at the heart of the city, other parks designed by the guy who did Central Park, a decent cost of living, affordable housing, and real good food. A kayak is a common summer car-topper, and skis in winter. We host (even IN the city) marmots, cougar, bear, coyotes, moose, deer, bald eagles, herons, osprey&#8230;and California quail by the thousands. We can look out and see mountains, we&#8217;re 80 miles from another country, we&#8217;re 20 miles from another state, and we&#8217;re right on the highway that crosses the northern US. Big stage shows stop here. We have casinos. We&#8217;re an easy drive to Yellowstone or Crater Lake or ocean beach. And you can walk to most sites and hotels downtown without breaking a sweat&#8212;it&#8217;s also pretty likely that part of that walk will be in a park beside a whitewater river. What&#8217;s not to love? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy and Sad Cities Spokane has housing market woes, we lost a couple of our big plants, we have a wee problem with unemployment, and we have ongoing controversy with city budget&#8230;but hey, we also have 2 skating rinks, a minor league baseball team, hockey, arena football, college teams of all sorts, ski and crosscountry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}