{"id":16355,"count":1,"description":"Tabor City is a town in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States.\nIt was named after Mount Tabor Baptist Church (now Tabor City Baptist Church), which itself is named after the biblical Mount Tabor. Originally named Mt. Tabor, the town adopted its current name after postal authorities confused it with Tarboro, North Carolina.\nNotoriously known as Razor City in the mid-20th century, it has been called the \"Yam Capital of the World.\" Each October, the North Carolina Yam Festival is held, celebrating the sweet potato with crafts, train rides, arts and vendors. \nNow a rural area, it has suffered economic difficulties in recent years, with the loss of the tobacco cash crop and high unemployment. A new state prison, the Tabor Correctional Institution, opened in 2007, and once fully populated, will house 1,500 inmates. TCI is located two miles (3\u00a0km) northwest from the center of Tabor City. \nThe town also contains Lake Tabor, a 500-acre (2.0\u00a0km) recreational lake.\nThe Tabor City...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/tabor-city\/","name":"Tabor City","slug":"tabor-city","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=16355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}