{"id":5022,"date":"2016-07-22T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/all-the-strange-parts-that-make-up-the-city-with-the-worlds-highest-standard-of-living\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:20:38","slug":"all-the-strange-parts-that-make-up-the-city-with-the-worlds-highest-standard-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/all-the-strange-parts-that-make-up-the-city-with-the-worlds-highest-standard-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"All the strange parts that make up the city with the world&#039;s highest standard of living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f153441%2filya_genkin\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/mbIBECV6MVG-5UUzp19GyHNN-Sw=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F153441%2FIlya_Genkin.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=All+the+strange+parts+that+make+up+the+city+with+the+world%27s+highest+standard+of+living&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F22%2Fcanberra-highest-quality-of-living%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F22%2Fcanberra-highest-quality-of-living%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A lot of Antipodeans don\u2019t realise this, but Australia\u2019s capital city is not Sydney. It\u2019s Canberra \u2014 the fair city that was man-made by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naa.gov.au\/collection\/fact-sheets\/fs95.aspx\">designer<\/a> and his wife directly between Sydney and Melbourne because the two cities were fighting over the honour too much.<\/p>\n<p>This is a city that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/39380351\/The-Secret-Plan-of-Canberra-By-Peter-Proudfoot-Masonic-Architecture-of-Australia-s-Capital-1994\">conspiracy theorists<\/a> believe has occult symbolism built into its design, making it quite literally a hell mouth. A city you really can\u2019t call a city because it&#8217;s covered in bushland and only has a population of 356,585 people.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/31\/traffic-lights-phones-australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia is putting traffic lights in the ground because you&#8217;re glued to your phone<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/22\/canberra-highest-quality-of-living\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/canberra\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Canberra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/lifestyle\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lifestyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/travel-leisure\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Travel Leisure<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/givtY1REBf8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of Antipodeans don\u2019t realise this, but Australia\u2019s capital city is not Sydney. It\u2019s Canberra \u2014 the fair city that was man-made by a designer and his wife directly between Sydney and Melbourne because the two cities were fighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/all-the-strange-parts-that-make-up-the-city-with-the-worlds-highest-standard-of-living\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,3868,788,789],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-canberra","tag-lifestyle","tag-travel-leisure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}