{"id":1073,"date":"2007-07-21T23:56:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2007-07-21T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T23:56:02","slug":"whats_in_your_faucet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/21\/whats_in_your_faucet\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in Your Faucet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s a small feather in my home town&#8217;s cap: a pair of wine tasters have declared that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_6422599\">Salt Lake&#8217;s tap water tastes best<\/a> out of the 12 cities whose water they tested for a recent segment on <i>The Today Show<\/i>. The other cities they considered include Portland (Oregon, I assume, since this list seems to work its way east), San Francisco, Dallas, St. Louis, Phoenix, Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, Boston, Miami and Columbia, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not about to dispute any positive press that comes this way &#8212; we Utahns have to put up with a whole lot of jokes and snide remarks about our fair state and our, ahem, unique local culture &#8212; I would like to know specifically <i>where<\/i> in the Salt Lake area the sample came from. It certainly wasn&#8217;t from <i>my<\/i> neighborhood, where the water is so hard that you can watch the mineral deposits swirl in a freshly drawn glass. Mmmmm, tasty! And chewy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s a small feather in my home town&#8217;s cap: a pair of wine tasters have declared that Salt Lake&#8217;s tap water tastes best out of the 12 cities whose water they tested for a recent segment on The Today Show. The other cities they considered include Portland (Oregon, I assume, since this list seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}