{"id":5156,"count":1,"description":"East Moriches is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 5,249 at the 2010 census.\nEast Moriches is in the Town of Brookhaven.\nThe name Moriches comes from Meritces, a Native American who owned land on Moriches Neck.\nEast Moriches is located at 40\u00b048\u203223\u2033N 72\u00b045\u203224\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.80639\u00b0N 72.75667\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.80639; -72.75667 (40.806287, -72.756735).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.6 square miles (15\u00a0km), of which, 5.4 square miles (14\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52\u00a0km) of it (2.68%) is water. East Moriches has an elementary school, recently built, as well as a middle school. Once a student is in 8th grade, he or she may choose to attend one of three high schools; Westhampton Beach, Center Moriches, and Eastport-South Manor. In 2006 the school budget failed, and the school was put on to austerity budget, or a budget controlled by the state. The East Moriches Booster club...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/east-moriches\/","name":"East Moriches","slug":"east-moriches","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5156","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=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}