{"id":6623,"date":"2026-01-08T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/i-shopped-around-for-my-dream-home-by-living-all-over-the-us-i-liked-florida-but-i-fell-in-love-with-the-midwest\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:24:10","slug":"i-shopped-around-for-my-dream-home-by-living-all-over-the-us-i-liked-florida-but-i-fell-in-love-with-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/i-shopped-around-for-my-dream-home-by-living-all-over-the-us-i-liked-florida-but-i-fell-in-love-with-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"I &#8216;shopped around&#8217; for my dream home by living all over the US. I liked Florida but I fell in love with the Midwest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After growing up in North Carolina, I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of 18 for college. That&#8217;s where I fell in love with my now-fianc\u00e9e and the surrounding Pinellas County.<br \/>\nWe both ado\u2026 [<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tried-living-different-places-find-forever-home-midwest-wisconsin-2026-1' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After growing up in North Carolina, I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of 18 for college. That&#8217;s where I fell in love with my now-fianc\u00e9e and the surrounding Pinellas County. We both ado\u2026 [read more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_ext_url":["https:\/\/i.insider.com\/695c082704eda4732f2e7991?width=768&format=jpeg"]},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorlegs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}