{"id":1156,"date":"2009-05-13T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2009-05-20T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:13:49","slug":"portland-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Portland Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a very kind and delicious article on Portland over at the NY Times<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0 I have to agree that Portland is a great place to come and eat. \u00a0And eat. \u00a0And maybe eat just a little more. \u00a0Even better, you can eat well and cheaply which is always a plus. \u00a0And that doesn’t even begin to cover the beer. \u00a0 But what caught my eye in this article, was how aptly Matt Gross sums up the charm of Portland….<\/p>\n

Amid economic catastrophe \u2014\u00a0Oregon<\/a>\u00a0has the country\u2019s second-highest unemployment rate \u2014 there was a general indifference to wealth. In its place was a dedication to the things that really matter: hearty food and drink, cultural pursuits both high and low, days in the outdoors and evenings out with friends. It\u2019s the good life, and in Portland it still comes cheap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe it’s coming from the Rat Race that is LA but I have to say, Mr. Gross hit the nail on the head. \u00a0Oh sure, we have some snobs here but the vast majority of folks you meet out and about are friendly, open and kind. \u00a0Money and cache don’t seems quite so important here. \u00a0Most people sport good walking shoes and a well loved raincoat and this ensemble will work no matter where you roam from hiking trails to restaurants. \u00a0We still know that the “good life” means enjoying the beauty of nature that surrounds us and the simple joy of looking a stranger in the eye and sharing a smile. \u00a0Ah Portland, you really know how to show a girl a good time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a very kind and delicious article on Portland over at the NY Times. \u00a0 I have to agree that Portland is a great place to come and eat. \u00a0And eat. \u00a0And maybe eat just a little more. \u00a0Even better, you can eat well and cheaply which is always a plus. \u00a0And that doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrissie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-iE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}