{"id":398,"date":"2014-08-21T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/?p=398"},"modified":"2014-08-21T21:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:20:42","slug":"bloomington-normal-ranked-among-top-50-us-college-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/2014\/08\/21\/bloomington-normal-ranked-among-top-50-us-college-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomington-Normal Ranked Among Top 50 US College Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">Thought your IWU experience was great? Apparently you&#8217;re not the only one. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">Bloomington-Normal ranked #38 of the 50 for best college towns in America by Best College Reviews. \u00a0The article considered attributes such as student-to-teacher ratio, cultural offerings and nearby employers. \u00a0The survey noted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through Illinois State University, a number of cultural offerings, sports events, and businesses catering to student nightlife are present. Large employers like State Farm Insurance, Mitsubishi, and Country Financial, coupled with a low cost of living make Bloomington a great location for young college town seekers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222\">To read more, visit:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcollegereviews.org\/50-best-college-towns-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bestcollegereviews.org\/50-best-college-towns-america\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought your IWU experience was great? Apparently you&#8217;re not the only one. Bloomington-Normal ranked #38 of the 50 for best college towns in America by Best College Reviews. \u00a0The article considered attributes such as student-to-teacher ratio, cultural offerings and nearby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/2014\/08\/21\/bloomington-normal-ranked-among-top-50-us-college-towns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2004classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}