{"id":2908,"count":1,"description":"Ripton is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 556 at the 2000 census. The Bread Loaf Writer's Conference is held annually in Ripton. Jessica Ravitz of CNN said that the town \"is the kind of place where cell service fails more often than it works and the country store is really just that. Otter Creek rages along snow-packed banks during springtime, Tibetan prayer flags wave outside a weather-worn home, and the fog lifts to reveal a white horse grazing in a field.\"\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 49.5\u00a0square miles (128.3\u00a0km), of which 49.5\u00a0square\u00a0miles (128.3\u00a0km) is land and 0.02% is water. Ripton is mountainous and largely populated by northern hardwood forest. The summit of Bread Loaf Mountain lies in the town. Although the approach to Middlebury Gap begins in Ripton, the Gap's height-of-land is in neighboring Hancock.\nAt the 2000 census, there were 556 people, 210 households and 152 families residing in the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ripton\/","name":"Ripton","slug":"ripton","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2908","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=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}