{"id":1100,"date":"2019-09-06T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.rochester.wordcamp.org\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:00:01","slug":"exploring-rochester-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/exploring-rochester-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Rochester &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I am not gallivanting around to WordCamps I\u2019m exploring my hometown, Rochester NY. At first, I was confused by Rochester\u2019s nickname. Is it \u201cFlour City\u201d or \u201cFlower City\u201d? Once it was explained to me, it made perfect sense! Rochester used to be known as the Flour City because of all the flour mills that dotted the Genesee River. The Genesee River and Erie Canal helped to power the flour mills along with providing fertile soil and transportation by waterways in addition to the railway. As flour processing moved to the Midwest, the largest seed companies in the world, started by immigrants, were based in Rochester and were the reason for the nickname change to \u201cFlower City\u201d. Read more on the history of Rochester at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Rochester,_New_York#Rochesterville_and_The_Flour_City\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Rochester,_New_York#Rochesterville_and_The_Flour_City<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.rochester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2019\/08\/SusanBInspiresMeFavicon-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1201\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had the chance to visit the Susan B. Anthony Museum &amp; House https:\/\/susanb.org\/ where I learned that the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was named in her honor. I also learned that Frederick Douglass https:\/\/rocdouglass.com\/ lived in Rochester for many years and published his first abolitionist newspaper here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope while your here to attend WordCamp Rochester 2019 you\u2019ll have a chance to visit Rochester and Monroe County. There\u2019s a lot to do here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been asked what my favorite food is. I\u2019m surprised more of you haven\u2019t guessed! I\u2019ll let you know the answer next week.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.rochester.wordcamp.org\/files\/2019\/08\/brownieblog-featured1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Brownie the Wapuu Blog\" class=\"wp-image-1149\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I am not gallivanting around to WordCamps I\u2019m exploring my hometown, Rochester NY. At first, I was confused by Rochester\u2019s nickname. Is it \u201cFlour City\u201d or \u201cFlower City\u201d? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15592651,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brownie-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15592651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochester.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}