{"id":860777,"date":"2026-06-11T21:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:58:17","slug":"the-shortest-street-with-the-longest-name-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860777\/","title":{"rendered":"The shortest street with the longest name is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           What do a Polish general from 1776 and a NASA astronaut have in common?        <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Tom Carroll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tom-carroll\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Tom Carroll. (Ricardo DeAratanha \/ Los Angeles Times)\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780402276_713_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      June 11, 2026 2:48 PM PT        <\/p>\n<ul data-element=\"action-bar-menu\" class=\"flex gap-2 list-none \">\n<li data-element=\"action-bar-share\" class=\"flex  relative \">\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They both have streets named after them and one unseated the other for the \u201cshortest street with the longest name\u201d title in the city of Los Angeles. Tom Carroll brings us this explainer.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Tom Carroll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tom-carroll\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780402276_713_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Tom Carroll is a content creator for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2022, he created, produced and hosted the web series \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/tomexploresla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Explores Los Angeles<\/a>.\u201d He has produced stories for NPR and Gimlet. A fourth-generation Southern Californian, he is a graduate of Occidental College and the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do a Polish general from 1776 and a NASA astronaut have in common? June 11, 2026 2:48&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":860778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,337,343758,343757,2961,351129,224,2444,5337,30120,37153,351130,351128,645,197,343756,343759,4280],"class_list":["post-860777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city","tag-explainer","tag-fourth-generation-southern-californian","tag-gimlet","tag-la","tag-long-name","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-npr","tag-occidental-college","tag-polish-general","tag-short-street","tag-story","tag-title","tag-tom-carroll","tag-tom-explores-los-angeles","tag-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}