{"id":213,"date":"2011-07-08T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T20:47:27","slug":"the-story-of-kawama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2011\/07\/08\/the-story-of-kawama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Of Kawama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every good estate needs a quirky name, preferably one that features the letter "K." As such, there is John D. Rockefeller's Kykuit<\/a> and Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kykuit is a Dutch word for "lookout." Indeed, the Rockefeller estate looks out on the Hudson Valley up in Westchester County. I think Val-Kill was also Dutch — at least it sounds Dutch. I guess it's a stream that went through the property near Hyde Park.<\/p>\n

I don't believe the word "Kawama" has a Dutch origin. According to the key chain that was attached to the master set of keys when we bought the estate, "Kawama" is an orange liqueur produced in Mexico:<\/p>\n

\"Kawama<\/p>\n

No matter, we were destined to name the estate "Kawama." And we have stuck to Kawama, even though for a few weeks I had to look at the key chain every time I wanted to say the name — in those first couple of weeks, we lived at "Kamama," "Kawawa" and even "Wakawa." What's that Shakira song? Waka Waka? We lived there, too.<\/p>\n

I thought it would be easier to learn more about Kawama Orange Liqueur, but I'm stuck. There seems to be a distributor in Miami<\/a> that imports it, although the product now seems to be called "Kawama Orange & Cognac Liqueur." I'm not sure I want this beverage to become the house drink but I would like to try it. Maybe I'll call around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every good estate needs a quirky name, preferably one that features the letter "K." As such, there is John D. Rockefeller's Kykuit and Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill. Kykuit is a Dutch word for "lookout." Indeed, the Rockefeller estate looks out on the Hudson Valley up in Westchester County. I think Val-Kill was also Dutch — at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[437,436],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-cult-of-domesticity","tag-estate-names","tag-kawama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}