{"id":41673,"count":2,"description":"Live oak (Quercus virginiana), also known as the southern live oak, is a normally evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South.\nWhen the term live oak is used in a specific rather than general sense, it most commonly refers to the southern live oak (the first species so named), but can often refer to other species regionally.\nThe southern live oak is the official state tree of Georgia.\nIn Texas, a small grove of live oaks (Texas live oak or southern live oak) is known as a mott.\nLive oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding. Because of the trees' short height and low hanging branches, lumber from live oak was specifically used to make curved structural members of the hull such as knee braces (single-piece inverted L-shape braces that spring inward from the side and support a ship's deck). In such cuts of lumber, the line of the grain would...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/live-oak\/","name":"Live Oak","slug":"live-oak","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41673","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=41673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}