{"id":707019,"date":"2010-04-01T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15495"},"modified":"2010-04-01T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:35:01","slug":"slideshowcherry-blossoms-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707019","title":{"rendered":"SLIDESHOW:Cherry Blossoms In Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual blooming of the cherry blossoms in the nation&#8217;s capital bring locals and visitors alike to the Tidal Basin on the National Mall.\u00a0\u00a0In 1912, Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki\u00a0 presented 3000 cherry\u00a0 blossom trees to the city of Washington as a symbol of friendship between Japan and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures\u00a0in Washington, DC soared\u00a0into the 70s, making the day ideal to take in the world famous cherry trees that serve as the perfect backdrop for the country&#8217;s most cherished monuments. Thousands enjoyed the day of sunshine and sweet smelling blooms.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photos of scenes from today, to see more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/slideshow\/us\/2010\/04\/01\/cherry-blossoms-bloom\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual blooming of the cherry blossoms in the nation&#8217;s capital bring locals and visitors alike to the Tidal Basin on the National Mall.\u00a0\u00a0In 1912, Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki\u00a0 presented 3000 cherry\u00a0 blossom trees to the city of Washington as a symbol of friendship between Japan and the United States. Temperatures\u00a0in Washington, DC soared\u00a0into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XVx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}