{"id":91475,"date":"2019-12-02T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/washington-post-names-durango-a-hallmark-movie-town\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:52:25","slug":"washington-post-names-durango-a-hallmark-movie-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/washington-post-names-durango-a-hallmark-movie-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post names Durango a \u2018Hallmark movie town\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=45d78191-f964-4c37-8d4e-3d61d1940ef8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1130\" alt=\"Anyone looking for Hallmark-style love can head to downtown Durango for the holidays, where the potential for love awaits on every street corner, according to The Washington Post.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Anyone looking for Hallmark-style love can head to downtown Durango for the holidays, where the potential for love awaits on every street corner, according to The Washington Post.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> has given Durango the honorary distinction of being a \u201cHallmark movie town\u201d and says the chances for love in this supposedly fairly-tale Southwest Colorado town are at every street corner.<\/p>\n<p>And no, the newspaper wasn\u2019t talking about Snowdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/tips\/abandon-big-city-fall-love-repeat-live-out-your-hallmark-movie-fantasies-these-festive-towns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A report Friday in the Post<\/a> longs for the tinseled warmth found in the Hallmark Channel\u2019s \u201cCountdown to Christmas,\u201d which features seasonal movies that over-dramatize yuletide joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movies tend to transport busy corporate types from cities to deeply quaint towns where they find love or, at the very least, the spirit of Christmas,\u201d the reporter wrote. \u201cWatching these movies may trigger the desire to visit one of these towns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, of course, the <em>Post<\/em> tracked down five U.S. towns that apparently twinkle with this criteria. And atop the list: Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The report boasts of Durango\u2019s lovely wintertime views, the \u201ccozy locals bundled up in lounge chairs around fire pits enjoying the apr\u00e8s-ski scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou nestle in with them, doing your best to blend in while also standing out to a potential \u2018special someone,\u2019\u201d the reporter wrote, offering some insight into what goes on in the minds of the people around us.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t find love at Purgatory Resort, or if instead, you chose a ride on the Durango &amp; Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad\u2019s Polar Express, don\u2019t fret.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMosey over to food-and-drink court 11th Street Station or the bar El Moro for more opportunities to meet your soul mate,\u201d the report said. \u201cIf that doesn\u2019t pan out like you and Hallmark hoped, try Noel Night on Dec. 6. Everyone in town comes out for the evening, where shops offer food, wine, games and discounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other towns that made the list: Leavenworth, Washington; Jackson, Wyoming; Middleburg, Virginia; and North Pole, Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love, Christmas spirit, wintertime views \u2013 we supposedly have it all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91475"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}