{"id":1729,"date":"2010-03-10T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/10\/americas-beer-belly\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:01:00","slug":"americas-beer-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/10\/americas-beer-belly\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s &quot;beer belly&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/us_bars_groceries_100122cropped-715515.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 228px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/us_bars_groceries_100122cropped-715510.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/10\/449-great-party-place-wisconsin-or-americas-beer-belly\/\">Strange Maps<\/a>, one of my favorite blogs, does it again with a map that uses Google data to compare the ratio of groceries to bars across the country.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Wisconsin and the upper Midwest is clearly America&#8217;s beer belly.  But the North Country, especially St. Lawrence county, holds its own.<\/p>\n<p>Do we drink more here?  Or do we just have fewer grocery stores (and for a time we&#8217;ll have even fewer during the P&amp;C &#8211;&gt; Price Chopper transition)?  Is it a sign of poverty?  Or community?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange Maps, one of my favorite blogs, does it again with a map that uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}