{"id":10792,"date":"2011-03-13T03:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T07:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2011-03-13T03:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T07:21:31","slug":"the-happiest-man-in-america-is-an-asian-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=10792","title":{"rendered":"The Happiest Man in America Is an Asian-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just read this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/06\/weekinreview\/06happy.html\">New York Times<\/a> and thought it&#8217;s interesting and love to share with you all.\u00a0 Mr. Alvin Wong (a Chinese American) is considered the happiest man in America.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Happiness.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10792]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10796\" title=\"Happiness\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Happiness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gallup.com is a service that provides data-driven news based on U.S. and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research.\u00a0 For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected  American adults each day and asked them about their emotional status,  work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other  indicators of their quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times asked Gallup to come up with a statistical composite  for the happiest person in America, based on the characteristics that  most closely correlated with happiness in 2010. Men, for example, tend  to be happier than women, older people are happier than middle-aged  people, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup\u2019s answer: he\u2019s a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at  least 65 and married, has children, lives in Hawaii, runs his own  business and has a household income of more than $120,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Alvin Wong. He is a 5-foot-10, 69-year-old, Chinese-American,  Kosher-observing Jew, who\u2019s married with children and lives in Honolulu.  He runs his own health care management business and earns more than  $120,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Mr. Wong said that he was indeed a very happy person.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>For complete article, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/06\/weekinreview\/06happy.html\">NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just read this story from New York Times and thought it&#8217;s interesting and love to share with you all.\u00a0 Mr. Alvin Wong (a Chinese American) is considered the happiest man in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[609,5093,5092],"class_list":["post-10792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian","tag-asian-american","tag-chinese-jew","tag-the-happiest-man-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}