{"id":123,"date":"2011-05-29T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/05\/29\/don-mess-with-grand-rapids\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:03","slug":"don-mess-with-grand-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/05\/29\/don-mess-with-grand-rapids\/","title":{"rendered":"Don't mess with Grand Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January Newsweek published a list of the Top 10 American cities in decline<\/a> and the folks in Grand Rapids didn’t take kindly making the Top 10. But instead of writing a lot of angry letters (actually, they probably did that too) about 3,000 of them got together to create a Lip Dub to refute the charge.The result is a pretty amazing piece of work that really makes you want to visit the city. It certainly doesn’t look like it’s a dying town. Here’s the video:It’s also fun to read some of the coverage about the video, which is now well on its way to going viral.The Grand Rapids Press<\/em><\/a> gives us some of the back story, as well as some details on some of the folks in the video.Awesome YouTube lip dub proves Grand Rapids is awesome<\/a> from MSNBC gives a good overview of the back story, as well as including a response from Newsweek, which was posted on their Facebook page:<\/a><\/p>\n

To the Grand Rapids crowd:First off, we LOVE your YouTube LipDub. We’re big fans, and are inspired by your love of the city you call home.<\/p>\n

But so you know what was up with the list you’re responding to, we want you to know it was done by a website called mainstreet.com–not by Newsweek (it was unfortunately picked up on the Newsweek web site as part of a content sharing deal)–and it uses a methodology that our current editorial team doesn’t endorse and wouldn’t have employed. It certainly doesn’t reflect our view of Grand Rapids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Mail online<\/a> also has a review of the video, including some more comments about the various scenes.Anyone who tells you that social media is just a fad – well, that’s just silly. Welcome to the revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January Newsweek published a list of the Top 10 American cities in decline and the folks in Grand Rapids didn’t take kindly making the Top 10. But instead of writing a lot of angry letters (actually, they probably did that too) about 3,000 of them got together to create a Lip Dub to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}