{"id":2665,"date":"2011-07-05T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:59:46","slug":"news-brief-australia-ranks-as-worlds-happiest-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/news-brief-australia-ranks-as-worlds-happiest-place\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Australia ranks as world\u2019s happiest place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Australia always seem to comment on how happy the residents of the country tend to be. Well, it\u2019s not just a perception any more. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and D<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/img_3455.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-989\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/img_3455.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>evelopment (OECD) has announced that Australians are truly the happiest people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/06\/28\/the-happiest-place-on-earth-is-australia\/?iref=obinsite\">OECD\u2019s latest Better Life Initiative index<\/a> ranked Australia the happiest based on a variety of \u201cgood life\u201d factors. Three-fourths of polled Australians were satisfied with their lies and about 85 percent said they were in good health.<\/p>\n<p>The next nine happiest countries were: Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, the U.S., Switzerland, Finland and the Netherlands. Not too bad that two of our destinations rank in the top ten in the world!<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"www.buckeyesabroad.org\">Ohio State<\/a> students on our <a href=\"www.auip.com\/australia\">North Queensland program<\/a> sure do look happy to be in Australia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Australia always seem to comment on how happy the residents of the country tend to be. Well, it\u2019s not just a perception any more. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has announced that Australians are truly the happiest people in the world. The OECD\u2019s latest Better Life Initiative index ranked Australia the happiest based on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,22,17,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-northern-territory","category-australia-south-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-new-zealand","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}