{"id":7686,"date":"2026-05-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:00:00","slug":"wichita-kan-is-that-rare-american-city-betting-its-future-on-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=7686","title":{"rendered":"Wichita, Kan., is that rare American city betting its future on the middle class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-34820308\" \/><br \/>Rent, food and other costs are cheaper than the national average. A duplex boom is attracting middle-income earners to the Midwestern city.<br \/>\n2026-05-11 01:00:00<br \/>\nRebecca Picciotto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rent, food and other costs are cheaper than the national average. A duplex boom is attracting middle-income earners to the Midwestern city. 2026-05-11 01:00:00 Rebecca Picciotto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}