{"id":15729,"date":"2014-03-15T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15729"},"modified":"2014-03-15T01:03:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T08:03:15","slug":"the-legends-of-twentynine-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/the-legends-of-twentynine-palms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legends of Twentynine Palms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tnpal.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most frequently asked questions about a certain desert city is, &#8220;How did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/twentynine-palms.html\">Twentynine Palms, California<\/a> get its name?&#8221; Nobody knows for certain but there are several explanations described as legends, each with a slight variation. Here&#8217;s what three sources have to say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS: \u00a0Legend says that the name of Twentynine Palms was first used by these gold miners because of the twenty-nine palm trees surrounding the Oasis.<\/li>\n<li>NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: \u00a0The Serano came to the Oasis of Mara because a medicine man told them it was a good place to live and that they would have many boy babies. The medicine man instructed them to plant a palm tree each time a boy was born. In the first year, the Serrano planted 29 palm trees at the oasis.<\/li>\n<li>TWENTYNINE PALMS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: \u00a0A legendary stand of 29 Washingtonia filifera palms at the oasis\u2014noted by the first desert surveyor Col. Henry Washington in 1855\u2014inspired the city\u2019s name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently asked questions about a certain desert city is, &#8220;How did Twentynine Palms, California get its name?&#8221; Nobody knows for certain but there are several explanations described as legends, each with a slight variation. Here&#8217;s what three sources have to say: \u00a0CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS: \u00a0Legend says that the name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}