{"id":5313,"count":1,"description":"Esperance is a large town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately 720 kilometres (450\u00a0mi) east-southeast of the state capital, Perth. The shire of Esperance is home to 9,536 people as of the 2006 census, its major industries are tourism, agriculture, and fishing. It is connected by public transport to Perth via Transwa coach service GE1, GE2, GE3 and GE4.\nEuropean history dates back to 1627 when the Dutch vessel Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by Fran\u00e7ois Thijssen, passed through the blue waters off the Esperance coast.\nFrench explorers are credited with making the first landfall near the present day town, naming it and other local landmarks whilst sheltering from a storm in this area in 1792. The town itself was named after a French ship, the Esp\u00e9rance, commanded by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Esperance, roughly translated, is French for 'hope'.\nIn 1802, British navigator Matthew Flinders sailed the Bay of Isles,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/esperance\/","name":"Esperance","slug":"esperance","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5313","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=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}