{"id":15236,"date":"2012-11-05T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2012-11-04T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:39:35","slug":"where-the-term-skid-row-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/where-the-term-skid-row-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where The Term &#8216;Skid Row&#8217; Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?attachment_id=15237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15237\" title=\"TIFO Quick Fact- Skid Row Fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Skid-Row-Fact-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Skid-Row-Fact-.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/TIFO-Quick-Fact-Skid-Row-Fact--340x296.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Text Version:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe term &#8220;Skid Road&#8221; or &#8220;Skid Row&#8221;, a slang term for a run-down or dilapidated urban area, \u00a0was an actual road in Seattle, Washington during the late 1800&#8217;s. \u00a0The real name of the road was Yesler Way (now better known as Pioneer Square), \u00a0and it was the main street along which logs were transported. \u00a0It soon became a rather sketchy stretch of street that loggers began to call &#8220;Skid Road.&#8221; It also became the dividing line between the affluent people of Seattle and the mill workers along with the more impoverished population of the city.\u00a0It didn&#8217;t\u00a0take long for the name to catch on and eventually stick.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: The term &#8220;Skid Road&#8221; or &#8220;Skid Row&#8221;, a slang term for a run-down or dilapidated urban area, \u00a0was an actual road in Seattle, Washington during the late 1800&#8217;s. \u00a0The real name of the road was Yesler Way (now better known as Pioneer Square), \u00a0and it was the main street along which logs were transported. \u00a0It soon became a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1112,3028,3030,3029,756],"class_list":["post-15236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-random-fact","tag-skid-road-fact","tag-skid-row","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}