{"id":44299,"count":1,"description":"Thoreau (Navajo: Dl\u01eb\u0301\u02bc\u00ed Y\u00e1zh\u00ed) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,863 at the 2000 census.\nPractically all residents pronounce the town's name like \"thuh-ROO\" (similar to \"through\" or \"threw\") and definitely not like \"thorough\" or \"throw.\" The town is also not named for Henry David Thoreau, the transcendentalist author, though this is a common misconception. A history of the town was compiled by local author Roxanne Trout Heath in her book \"Thoreau, where the trails cross!\" published in 1982.\nThe ZIP code for Thoreau is 87323.\nThoreau is located at 35\u00b024\u203252\u2033N 108\u00b013\u203225\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff35.414370\u00b0N 108.223594\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 35.414370; -108.223594 (35.414370, -108.223594).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 15.9 square miles (41\u00a0km), all of it land.\nThoreau sits at an altitude of approximately 2,200 meters (7,200\u00a0ft) above sea level, and located 8 kilometers (5.0\u00a0mi) east of the continental divide....","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/thoreau\/","name":"Thoreau","slug":"thoreau","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/44299","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=44299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}