{"id":412,"date":"2010-03-18T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offices.net\/news\/?p=412"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:09:09","slug":"us-city-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/us-city-state\/","title":{"rendered":"US City and State Nicknames & Slogans: from Bizarre to Formal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhether inspired by famous movies or celebrity quotations, city nicknames and slogans are a fantastic and informative way to introduce your city to a complete stranger. We all know that what happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas, but what about other locations across the States?<\/p>\n

Offices.net<\/a> has compiled a list of city nicknames and slogans<\/a> to try shed some light over the historic, social, cultural and – sometimes criminal – situation of each and every state, as well as most of the cities.<\/p>\n

There are the flavoursome (Hershey, aka Chocolate Capital of the World; Kansas City, aka BBQ Capital of the World), the beautiful (Los Angeles, aka City of Flowers and Sunshine), the scary (Kansas City, aka Killa City; Roswell, aka Alien Capital of the World; Salem, aka The Witch City), the foreign (Ouray, aka Switzerland of America), the odd (Strong, aka Toothpick Capital of the World) the down-to-earth (Plano, aka Play No Games) and the humorous (Telluride, aka To-hell-you-ride).<\/p>\n

The list of official and un-official state nicknames and taglines<\/a> shows how over time certain things started to be associated with particular states, became inseparable and widely used, and in many cases treated as the -state surname-.<\/p>\n

If you happen to know of a state motto or a city moniker that we haven’t included in the resource, please get in touch<\/a>. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated. <\/p>\n

Glossary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motto:<\/strong> designed to enhance the city’s cultural, historical, economical or social importance.
\nMoniker:<\/strong> synonymous with a city, usually used alongside the actual city name.
\nNickname:<\/strong> a familiar, invented name used instead of the actual city name.
\nSlogan:<\/strong> a brief sentence or a phrase used to identify the city.
\nTagline:<\/strong> a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether inspired by famous movies or celebrity quotations, city nicknames and slogans are a fantastic and informative way to introduce your city to a complete stranger. We all know that what happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas, but what about other locations across the States? Offices.net has compiled a list of city nicknames […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,33,32,31,34,30,35],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities-states","tag-city","tag-moniker","tag-motto","tag-slogan","tag-state","tag-tagline","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}