{"id":4379,"date":"2009-03-12T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2009-03-12T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:12:02","slug":"happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Utah is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090311\/ap_on_re_us\/states_of_happiness\">the happiest place in the country:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Looking for happiness \u2014 it&#8217;s family-friendly communities for some, tropical paradise or the rugged West for others. A survey of Americans&#8217; well-being, conducted by Gallup in partnership with Healthways and <span id=\"lw_1236803309_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans<\/span>, gives high marks to Utah, which boasts lots of outdoor recreation for its youthful population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, it&#8217;s not <em>just <\/em>a red-state thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In general, highest well-being scores came from states in the West while the lowest were concentrated in the South.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still &#8211; combine this with the facts that conservatives have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3617\">better senses of humor<\/a> and have <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Primetime\/News\/story?id=174461\">better sex lives<\/a>, and &#8211; well, a pattern is forming here, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Utah is the happiest place in the country: WASHINGTON \u2013 Looking for happiness \u2014 it&#8217;s family-friendly communities for some, tropical paradise or the rugged West for others. A survey of Americans&#8217; well-being, conducted by Gallup in partnership with Healthways and America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans, gives high marks to Utah, which boasts lots of outdoor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}