{"id":145438,"date":"2010-07-28T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bangkok-named-top-city-by-travel-leisure-magazine\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:08:00","slug":"bangkok-named-top-city-by-travel-leisure-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bangkok-named-top-city-by-travel-leisure-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Named &#8216;Top City&#8217; by Travel + Leisure Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Bangkok named &quot;Top City&quot; for 2010<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn what many believe is a surprising choice due to the recent riots, Travel  Leisure named Bangkok, Thailand the &quot;Top City&quot; for 2010.&nbsp; Often considered by many well traveled individuals as a &quot;must visit&quot; locale, Bangkok has had a rough year with media coverage of the often violent political protests throughout the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis honor will no doubt give Bangkok a new found moral boost and hopefully assist in getting more tourists to take another look at the city as a travel destination. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe poll asked readers to cast votes between December 2009 and March 2010 on such topics as favorite city, island, hotel and airline.&nbsp; Nearly 16,000 readers responded.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe governor of Bangkok made a visit to New York last week to received the award from TL and briefly met with the city&#39;s Mayor Michael Bloomberg to get his advice on how the Big Apple recovered after the 9\/11 attacks. New York ranked 10th on the &quot;Top City&quot; list for 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOther cities that made the list included Rome (#5), Buenos Aires (#7) and Sydney (#9). Bangkok was ranked #3 in 2009 and #1 in 2008.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/worldsbest\/2010\/cities\" target=\"_blank\"> Travel  Leisure&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bangkok named &quot;Top City&quot; for 2010 &nbsp; In what many believe is a surprising choice due to the recent riots, Travel Leisure named Bangkok, Thailand the &quot;Top City&quot; for 2010.&nbsp; Often considered by many well traveled individuals as a &quot;must visit&quot; locale, Bangkok has had a rough year with media coverage of the often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}