{"id":501649,"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.media\/index\/501649","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":6583,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}