{"id":25450,"count":3,"description":"Xenia (pronounced \/\u02c8zi\u02d0nj\u0259\/ zeen-y\u0259) is a city in and the county seat of Greene County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio 21 miles from Dayton and is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name comes from the Greek word Xenia (\u03be\u03b5\u03bd\u03af\u03b1), which means \"hospitality\".\nMany of its residents supported the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War.\nAs of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 25,719. Xenia is the third largest city in Greene County, behind Fairborn and Beavercreek.\nXenia was founded in 1803, the year Ohio was admitted into the Union. In that year, pioneer John Paul bought 2,000 acres (8.1\u00a0km) of land from Thomas and Elizabeth Richardson of Hanover County, Virginia, for \"1050 pounds current moneys of Virginia.\" Paul influenced county commissioners to locate the town seat on this land at the forks of the Shawnee Creeks.\nJoseph C. Vance was named to survey the site and lay out the town. The following year, he...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/xenia\/","name":"Xenia","slug":"xenia","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/25450","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=25450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}