{"id":5773,"date":"2014-01-28T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:29:55","slug":"the-secrets-of-the-worlds-happiest-cities-society-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/the-secrets-of-the-worlds-happiest-cities-society-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The secrets of the world&#039;s happiest cities &#124; Society &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving in traffic is harrowing for both brain and body. The blood of people who drive in cities is a\u00a0stew of stress hormones. The worse the traffic, the more your system is flooded with adrenaline and cortisol, the fight-or-flight juices that, in the short-term, get your heart pumping faster, dilate your air passages and help sharpen your alertness, but in the long-term can make you ill. Researchers for Hewlett-Packard convinced volunteers in England to wear electrode caps during their commutes and found that whether they were driving or taking the train, peak-hour travellers suffered worse stress than fighter pilots or riot police facing mobs of angry protesters.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2013\/nov\/01\/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices?CMP=fb_gu\">The secrets of the world&#8217;s happiest cities | Society | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving in traffic is harrowing for both brain and body. The blood of people who drive in cities is a\u00a0stew of stress hormones. The worse the traffic, the more your system is flooded with adrenaline and cortisol, the fight-or-flight juices that, in the short-term, get your heart pumping faster, dilate your air passages and help &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/the-secrets-of-the-worlds-happiest-cities-society-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The secrets of the world&#039;s happiest cities &#124; Society &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}