{"id":612,"date":"2008-07-28T21:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T18:36:35","slug":"the-amusing-town-of-dildo-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"The amusing town of Dildo, Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Dildo, Newfoundland\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2182\/2305103203_052dde5af1.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>[Picture by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/kvanlierop\/2305103203\/\">KVL<\/a> used under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons<\/a> license.]<\/small><\/p>\n<p>[digg-reddit-me]The unfortunate residents of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;q=dildo,+newfoundland&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=title\">Dildo, Newfoundland<\/a> (all 272 of them) have been trying to change their town&#8217;s name for years to no avail.\u00a0 While the town&#8217;s name was taken in the late 1700s &#8211; the source of the name is shrouded in mystery.\u00a0 The best explanation I have come across is that some early explorer thought that the local peninsula resembled a&#8230;dildo.\u00a0 Today, some residents have embraced the name though.\u00a0 While in this small fishing town, you can visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dildodorygrill.com\/\">Dildo Dory Grill<\/a> and stay in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dildocottages.com\/\">Dildo Cottages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/frinko.com\/town-with-unusual-name.html\">Frink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Picture by KVL used under a Creative Commons license.] [digg-reddit-me]The unfortunate residents of Dildo, Newfoundland (all 272 of them) have been trying to change their town&#8217;s name for years to no avail.\u00a0 While the town&#8217;s name was taken in the late 1700s &#8211; the source of the name is shrouded in mystery.\u00a0 The best explanation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[534,532,533],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-canada","tag-dildo","tag-newfoundland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-9S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}