{"id":3563,"date":"2009-09-07T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-stanford-university-palo-alto-united-states\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:01:01","slug":"what-is-the-nickname-of-stanford-university-palo-alto-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"What is the nickname of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9532\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Stanford_University_Palo_Alto_California-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9532\" title=\"Stanford_University_Palo_Alto_California\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Stanford_University_Palo_Alto_California-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford_University_Palo_Alto_California\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford University Palo Alto California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as <strong>The Farm<\/strong>, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of a horse farm. Stanford University was founded on his estate in Palo Alto by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, former California Governor and future Senator, and his wife, Jane Stanford. They decided to dedicate a university to their only son, who died of typhoid in 1884 just before his 16th birthday, and Leland Stanford told his wife:\u00a0 &#8220;The children of California shall be our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of a horse farm. Stanford University was founded on his estate in Palo Alto by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, former California Governor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[165,405,406,357],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universities","tag-california","tag-palo-alto","tag-stanford-university","tag-united-states","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}