{"id":8021,"count":9,"description":"Houston (\u00a0\/\u02c8hju\u02d0st\u0259n\/) is the largest city in the state of Texas, and the fourth-largest city in the United\u00a0States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of 579 square miles (1,500\u00a0km). Houston is the seat of Harris\u00a0County and the economic center of Houston\u2013Sugar Land\u2013Baytown, which is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. of nearly 6\u00a0million people.\nHouston was founded in 1836 on land near the banks of Buffalo\u00a0Bayou. It was incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837, and named after then-President of the Republic of Texas\u2014former General Sam Houston\u2014who had commanded at the Battle of San\u00a0Jacinto, which took place 25 miles (40\u00a0km) east of where the city was established. The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the city's population. In the mid-twentieth century, Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center\u2014the world's largest concentration of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/houston\/","name":"Houston","slug":"houston","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8021","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=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}