A pastor of 30 years comes clean; Geoff Kirsch’s controversial satire of Alaska Airlines boarding policies; Kerry Howard’s unpacking of “Juneau Style”; the things they don’t tell you about living in Alaska: The Empire’s Neighbors section in 2017 has been a crosscurrent of culture, memoir, religious life and celebration.<\/p>\n
Juneauites showed their truest selves in the Neighbors section this year. Here are the top 10 most-read Neighbors stories for the year:<\/p>\n
1. Burned by the Church<\/a>, Dan Wiese<\/p>\n 2. A tension in the departure lounge<\/a>, Geoff Kirsch<\/p>\n 3. Things they don’t tell you about living in Alaska<\/a>, Guy Unzicker<\/p>\n 4. 7 things Alaskans hear when traveling<\/a>, Guy Unzicker<\/p>\n 5. That’s not dog poop, it’s brown gold<\/a>, Geoff Kirsch<\/p>\n 6. Juneau Style: Michael Tarren Scott<\/a>, Kerry Howard<\/p>\n 7. The Ultimate Juneau Preparedness Kit<\/a>, Guy Unzicker<\/p>\n 8. Being an ‘adult,’<\/a> Tasha Elizarde<\/p>\n 9. Get out and look out<\/a>!, Guy Unzicker<\/p>\n 10. A quick-pickin’ guide to Folk Fest<\/a>, Guy Unzicker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pastor of 30 years comes clean; Geoff Kirsch’s controversial satire of Alaska Airlines boarding policies; Kerry Howard’s unpacking of “Juneau Style”; the things they don’t tell you about living in Alaska: The Empire’s Neighbors<\/a> section in 2017 has been a crosscurrent of culture, memoir, religious life and celebration. Juneauites showed their truest selves in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18661"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}