{"id":40473,"count":2,"description":"Waxahachie (pronounced\u00a0\/\u02ccw\u0252ks\u0259\u02c8h\u00e6t\u0283i\/) is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ellis County.\nWaxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, R&B; singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham (manager for ZZ Top), Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film \" Places in the Heart\" in his hometown. It was said that Edward (Chief Wahoo) McDaniel was from Waxahachie, but he was born in Bernice, Oklahoma.\nIn 1988 the area around Waxahachie was chosen as the site for the Superconducting Super Collider, which was to be the world's largest and most energetic particle accelerator, with a planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometers (54.1\u00a0mi). Seventeen shafts were sunk and 23.5\u00a0km (14.6\u00a0mi) of tunnel were bored before the project was cancelled by Congress in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/waxahachie\/","name":"Waxahachie","slug":"waxahachie","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40473","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=40473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}