{"id":1051,"date":"2011-01-17T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2011-01-17T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:48:07","slug":"us-city-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/us-city-to\/","title":{"rendered":"US City takes cue from Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seattle trying to achieve &#8216;Gross National Happiness&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nby ERIC WILKINSON \/ KING 5 News<br \/>\nCourtesy: King 5 News, Seattle, WA<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"470\" height=\"288\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/v\/?i=114072029\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"470\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/v\/?i=114072029\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s one of the most isolated nations in the world, nearly a quarter of the population lives in poverty and they&#8217;ve only had television for twelve years. So why are the people of Bhutan so happy, and why does the City of Seattle want us to be more like them? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Take the happiness survey mentioned in this video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableseattle.org\/survey\/GNH\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>by clicking here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle trying to achieve &#8216;Gross National Happiness&#8217; by ERIC WILKINSON \/ KING 5 News Courtesy: King 5 News, Seattle, WA\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the most isolated nations in the world, nearly a quarter of the population lives in poverty and they&#8217;ve only had television for twelve years. So why are the people of Bhutan so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/us-city-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US City takes cue from Bhutan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[82,205,374,458,481,610,636,1351],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gross-national-happiness","category-sustainable-development","tag-agriculture","tag-bhutan","tag-culture","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-gross-national-happiness-gnh","tag-health-care","tag-sustainable-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}