{"id":1192,"date":"2004-04-11T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2004-04-11T19:03:04","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T00:03:04","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

there is a place in New Jersey on the shore called Cheesequake<\/i><\/a>, NJ? Not Cheese-cake<\/u><\/i>, or Earth-<\/u>quake<\/i>, but Cheesequake<\/i><\/b>! Why would they name a place Cheesequake? And how come when people say to you “I went to Cheesequake this weekend,” they say it with a straight face and never say “why is it named Cheesequake?” Was there like a Velveeta earthquake there once?
\nUpdate:<\/b> One reader has written:<\/p>\n

Dear Pansy,
\nAfter intensive research (well, Yahoo searching anyway), I can tell you that “Cheesquake” is apparently derived from a Lenni Lenape word “chiskhaki”, which means “land that has been cleared”.
\nNow you can sleep at night.
\nCordially,
\nRobert Wenson
\nLower Nazareth, PA (but born & raised in NJ)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now we know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

there is a place in New Jersey on the shore called Cheesequake, NJ? Not Cheese-cake, or Earth-quake, but Cheesequake! Why would they name a place Cheesequake? And how come when people say to you “I went to Cheesequake this weekend,” they say it with a straight face and never say “why is it named Cheesequake?”… Continue reading Did You Know<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}