{"id":26345,"date":"2011-05-24T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T17:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/canada_scores_very_highly_in_the_global_better_life_index\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T17:32:39","slug":"canada_scores_very_highly_in_the_global_better_life_index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26345","title":{"rendered":"Canada Scores very Highly in the Global Better Life Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All in all, Canadians are a pretty comfortable and happy lot.<\/p>\n<p>The country ranks at or near the top in many of 11 well-being indicators in a new quality of life index, unveiled Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Only Australia topped Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, I think Canada seems to be a pretty good place to be,\u201d\u009d said Matthias Rumpf, an OECD spokesman in Washington. \u201cBut,\u201d\u009d he cautioned, \u201cit shouldn\u2019t make them complacent about everything.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/canadians-cant-complain-better-life-index\/article2032315\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All in all, Canadians are a pretty comfortable and happy lot. The country ranks at or near the top in many of 11 well-being indicators in a new quality of life index, unveiled Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26345\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,207,149,111,119,104,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-economy","category-education","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}