{"id":4970,"date":"2023-02-11T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:57:55","slug":"takoma-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=4970","title":{"rendered":"Takoma Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:97px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-b5a91d9f-a8b0-4eff-bf00-d4845df2c2e8\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#015039\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Name &#8220;Takoma Park&#8221;<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5001\" width=\"224\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image.png 576w, https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">KIRO radio in Seattle, Washington recently ran a story about the relationship between place names in Maryland and Washington: Takoma Park, Maryland and Tacoma, Washington AND Mt Rainier, Maryland and Mount Rainier, Washington. You can <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3818159\/takoma-and-mount-rainier-are-the-pride-of-maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read and listen to the story <\/strong><\/a>(featuring Historic Takoma&#8217;s archivist, Jim Douglas).<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:4px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?page_id=1247\" target=\"_blank\">See Past Features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}