{"id":2035,"date":"2011-06-12T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2011-06-12T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T08:22:37","slug":"john-jacob-astor---astoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"John Jacob Astor - Astoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe town Astoria in Queens, NY has a <a href=\"http:\/\/origin.ny1.com\/content\/features\/today_in_nyc_history\/6240\/june-12th-in-nyc-history\" target=\"_blank\">unique history for its name<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;June 12 <strong>1839...<\/strong><em>The town of <strong>Sunswik <\/strong>is renamed <strong>Astoria <\/strong>in an<br \/>\nattempt to flatter millionaire John Jacob Astor into paying for a<br \/>\nwomen's college.  Astor isn't fooled and the college is <u>never built<\/u> &ndash;<br \/>\nbut the name sticks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town Astoria in Queens, NY has a unique history for its name. &nbsp;June 12 1839...The town of Sunswik is renamed Astoria in an attempt to flatter millionaire John Jacob Astor into paying for a women's college. Astor isn't fooled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}