{"id":1977,"date":"2009-03-25T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/where-to-get-downsized\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T05:59:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T10:59:32","slug":"where-to-get-downsized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/where-to-get-downsized\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities Getting Downsized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a funny clue from the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/Economy\/story?id=7161344&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">abcnews.com article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be direct: If Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel or John Mellencamp has written a melancholy song about your city, it&#8217;s probably on this list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good line for a sad story.\u00a0 I wonder how some of these towns are going to be affected by this present economy?\u00a0 Here is the top 10 most downsized cities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10. Providence, RI<br \/>\n\u00a0 9. Lansing, MI<br \/>\n\u00a0 8. Pittsburgh, PA<br \/>\n\u00a0 7. Toledo, OH<br \/>\n\u00a0 6. Buffalo, NY<br \/>\n\u00a0 5. Dayton, OH<br \/>\n\u00a0 4. Detroit, MI<br \/>\n\u00a0 3. Cleveland, OH<br \/>\n\u00a0 2. Flint, MI<br \/>\n\u00a0 1. Youngstown, OH<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is almost shocking how close these cities are to each other and how they followed similar paths \u2013 reliance upon automotive and steel industries.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to 7 of these cities and the economic trouble before the recession was startling.\u00a0 I can only imagine what it is like today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a funny clue from the abcnews.com article: To be direct: If Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel or John Mellencamp has written a melancholy song about your city, it&#8217;s probably on this list. Good line for a sad story.\u00a0 I wonder how some of these towns are going to be affected by this present economy?\u00a0 Here is the top 10 most downsized cities: 10. Providence, RI \u00a0 9. Lansing, MI \u00a0 8. Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0 7. Toledo, OH \u00a0 6. Buffalo, NY \u00a0 5. Dayton, OH \u00a0 4. Detroit, MI \u00a0 3. Cleveland, OH \u00a0 2. Flint, MI \u00a0 1. Youngstown, OH It is almost shocking how close these cities&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/where-to-get-downsized\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,5],"tags":[1285,1286,1284],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-vT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->