{"id":1754,"date":"2010-12-04T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2010-12-05T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T20:08:04","slug":"the-most-and-least-brainy-cities-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"The Most and Least Brainy Cities in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you live in a college town?\u00a0 Take a look around, chances are it&#8217;s one of the brainiest cities in America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Portfolio Magazine<\/em> recently ranked 200 cities in order of relative brainpower.\u00a0 Using new American Community Survey data, it looked at cities&#8217; average earning power and median level of educational attainment to determine which towns had the most cerebral force.<\/p>\n<p>Ranking among the top brainiest cities are Boulder, Colorado, home of the University of Colorado; Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of the University of Michigan; Washington, D.C., which has several colleges and universities; Durham, North Carolina, where Duke University is located, and FORT COLLLINS, Colorado (WHOO HOO!), home to Colorado State University and also home to Amerika Now.<\/p>\n<p>The five least brainiest cities include Merced, California, McAllen-Edinburg, Texas, Brownsville, Texas, Visalia, California, and Bakersfield, California.<\/p>\n<p><em>Portfolio&#8217;s<\/em> survey focused on the 200 largest metro areas in America, the largest being New York City and the smallest Burlington, Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And in Other News:\u00a0 Iran Claims Full Control over Making Nuclear Fuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See full story at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you live in a college town?\u00a0 Take a look around, chances are it&#8217;s one of the brainiest cities in America. Portfolio Magazine recently ranked 200 cities in order of relative brainpower.\u00a0 Using new American Community Survey data, it looked at cities&#8217; average earning power and median level of educational attainment to determine which towns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}