{"id":995,"date":"2016-02-01T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T19:14:32","slug":"loudoun-aiming-for-more-nightlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Loudoun aiming for more nightlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loudoun County has recently been ranked among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/local\/wp\/2013\/12\/13\/loudoun-maintains-wealthiest-county-in-u-s-title-other-nova-counties-drop-slightly\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">wealthiest<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/smartassetcom\/the-happiest-places-in-am_b_7754502.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">happiest<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/top-ten\/best-counties-in-america\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">best places to live<\/span><\/a> in the country. But there is one list it is unlikely to make: places with the best nightlife. And that makes local business leaders unhappy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/committee-is-looking-at-ways-to-improve-nightlife-in-loudoun-county\/2016\/01\/29\/758e5d10-c5e1-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The perception that there is little to do in Loudoun when the workday ends is making it hard for businesses to attract and keep qualified young workers<\/a>, said Tony Howard, chief executive of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/committee-is-looking-at-ways-to-improve-nightlife-in-loudoun-county\/2016\/01\/29\/758e5d10-c5e1-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, January 31, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loudoun County has recently been ranked among the wealthiest, happiest and best places to live in the country. But there is one list it is unlikely to make: places with the best nightlife. And that makes local business leaders unhappy. The perception that there is little to do in Loudoun when the workday ends is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=995\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loudoun aiming for more nightlife&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,23,98,18,67,113,59,14,3,69,153,74],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-ashburn","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-brambleton","tag-business","tag-economic-development","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-middleburg","tag-one-loudoun","tag-purcellville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}