{"id":46261,"count":1,"description":"Mount Hamilton is a mountain in California's Diablo Range, in Santa Clara County, California. Mount\u00a0Hamilton, at 4,196-foot (1,279\u00a0m) is the tallest mountain overlooking Silicon Valley, and is the site of Lick Observatory, the first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. The various summits along its mile-long summit ridge have been given astronomy-related names. The highest is Copernicus Peak at 4,367-foot (1,331\u00a0m). 4,250-foot (1,295\u00a0m) Kepler Peak and 4,213-foot (1,284\u00a0m) Observatory Peak follow. The latter was more than 30 feet (9.1\u00a0m) taller before it was leveled during the construction of the observatory in the 1880s. The asteroid 452 Hamiltonia, discovered in 1899, is named after the mountain. Golden Eagle nesting sites are found on the slopes of Mount Hamilton.\nOn August 26, 1861, while working for Josiah D. Whitney on the first California Geological Survey, William H. Brewer invited local San Jose preacher (and Brewer's personal friend) Laurentine Hamilton to join his...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mount-hamilton\/","name":"Mount Hamilton","slug":"mount-hamilton","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/46261","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=46261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}