{"id":26351,"date":"2016-02-10T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-comes-in-no-5-on-lonely-planets-top-destinations-for-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:05:11","slug":"alaska-comes-in-no-5-on-lonely-planets-top-destinations-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-comes-in-no-5-on-lonely-planets-top-destinations-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska comes in No. 5 on Lonely Planets top destinations for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/strong> Lonely Planet gave some love to The City of Brotherly Love on Tuesday, ranking Philadelphia the No. 1 place to visit in the United States in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhilly\u2019s on a roll right now,\u201d the travel guide company said in a statement. \u201cThe city is experiencing a transformation to its urban core, yet retaining its deep American history and uniquely gritty flavor.<\/p>\n<p>The company noted that Philadelphia hosted Pope Francis in September and will welcome the Democratic National Convention this summer. In November, it was named the country\u2019s first World Heritage City.<\/p>\n<p>Lonely Planet said it picks the \u201ctop 10 most exciting, intriguing and up-and-coming\u201d destinations for the list, and called Philadelphia \u201ca national treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out its top 10 list for 2016, in order: Natchez, Mississippi; Yellowstone National Park; Birmingham, Alabama; Alaska; Somerville, Massachusetts; Northwest Arkansas; San Antonio; Southern New Mexico; and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Lonely Planet gave some love to The City of Brotherly Love on Tuesday, ranking Philadelphia the No. 1 place to visit in the United States in 2016. \u201cPhilly\u2019s on a roll right now,\u201d the travel <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/guide\/\">guide<\/a> company said in a statement. \u201cThe city is experiencing a transformation to its urban core, yet retaining [&hellip;]<\/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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351","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=26351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26351"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}