{"id":112,"date":"2005-11-28T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2005-11-28T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T19:58:10","slug":"pdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"PDX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/mthood.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember that boy from Portland I mentioned? We&#8217;ve been debating the benefits of our fair cities in hopes of pursuading the other to relocate. The &#8220;You&#8217;ll have to move here&#8221; followed by &#8220;No, you move here&#8221; argument usually degrades into a tennis match of geographic beauties, city planning, sports teams, and cost of living. And really, can you argue about whether Mt. Hood is prettier than Mt. Rainier?<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I came up with a doozy: the Olympics. Portland don&#8217;t got &#8217;em. Bwaa haa haa haa. I&#8217;ve come up with it at last! The final bit that will convince him he must move UP HERE. He countered with <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/pacificnw\/2003\/0202\/cover.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For now, at least, he&#8217;s winning. And it wasn&#8217;t even in the stoopid Oregonian. It&#8217;s from the Seattle Times. How embarrassing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/pacificnw\/2003\/0202\/cover.html\">A Tale of Three Cities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that boy from Portland I mentioned? We&#8217;ve been debating the benefits of our fair cities in hopes of pursuading the other to relocate. The &#8220;You&#8217;ll have to move here&#8221; followed by &#8220;No, you move here&#8221; argument usually degrades into a tennis match of geographic beauties, city planning, sports teams, and cost of living. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}