{"id":35907,"count":1,"description":"Tightwad is a village in Henry County, Missouri, United States. Its population was 64 people in the 2010 United States Census.\nLocated astride Missouri Route 7, Tightwad was an unincorporated location until 1984 however a U.S. Post Office had existed there at the turn of the 20th century. The village's unusual name is said to stem from an episode in which a store owner cheated a customer, who was a postman, by charging him an extra fifty cents for a better watermelon. Some sources claim the transaction involved a rooster rather than a watermelon. Due to its proximity to Truman Reservoir, Tightwad saw some limited growth starting in the mid-1980s. As of 2010 the villages' business district offerings included a bank (see below), cafe', tavern, and convenience store.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6\u00a0km), of which, 1.0 square mile (2.6\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.99% is water.\nAs of the census of 2010, there were 64 people, 28...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/tightwad\/","name":"Tightwad","slug":"tightwad","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/35907","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=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}