{"id":34939,"count":1,"description":"Bone Gap is a village in Edwards County, Illinois, United States. The population was 272 at the 2000 census.\nBone Gap is located at 38\u00b026\u203249\u2033N 87\u00b059\u203247\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff38.44694\u00b0N 87.99639\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 38.44694; -87.99639 (38.447053, -87.996288).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nFrench trappers knew this area before it was permanently settled. The French referred to this place as \"Bon Pas,\" which translates literally to \"good step,\" Kentuckians modified the name to \"Bone Pass,\" as though it were a \"pass\" through a mountain range. This was then changed to \"Bone Gap,\" as in the Cumberland Gap.\nAn alternative story about the origin of Bone Gap's name involves a small band of Piankashaw Indians who established a village in a gap in the trees a short distance east of present day Bone Gap. Several years later early American settlers found a pile of bones discarded by the Indians near their encampment-hence the name Bone...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/bone-gap\/","name":"Bone Gap","slug":"bone-gap","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34939","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=34939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}