{"id":68336,"date":"2010-03-26T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/cherry-blossoms-festival-starts-in-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T09:48:00","slug":"cherry-blossoms-festival-starts-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/cherry-blossoms-festival-starts-in-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossoms Festival Starts in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Cherry Blossoms Festival in Washington DC<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSpring is in the air and on the trees as well in Washington DC so that means the annual Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off this weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom Saturday March 26 through Sunday April 11 nearly 4,000 trees will bloom to the enjoyment of visitors and locals alike.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe best time to view the cherry blossoms will be over Easter weekend. This annual event started back in 1912 when Tokyo, Japan presented Washington DC with cherry trees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough a rough winter did damage some of the trees, park officials said that they fully expect most trees to blossom fully.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2010\/03\/25\/ST2010032503658.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Cherry Blossoms Festival in Washington DC &nbsp; Spring is in the air and on the trees as well in Washington DC so that means the annual Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off this weekend. &nbsp; From Saturday March 26 through Sunday April 11 nearly 4,000 trees will bloom to the enjoyment of visitors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}