{"id":98881185,"date":"2011-03-22T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/washington-d-c-cherry-blossom-festival-to-benefit-japan\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:19:37","slug":"washington-d-c-cherry-blossom-festival-to-benefit-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/washington-d-c-cherry-blossom-festival-to-benefit-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival to Benefit Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C.\u2019s annual Cherry Blossom Festival will be tinged with sadness this year as visitors reflect on the devastation in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the trees celebrated in the festival were donated by Japan 98 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, D.C. is determined to return the generosity; this year&#8217;s festival will be highlighted by a \u201cStand with Japan\u201d walk, with all proceeds going to Japanese relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The festival kicks off on March 26 with peak blossoms expected just as the calendar flips to April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Online Journal <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C.\u2019s annual Cherry Blossom Festival will be tinged with sadness this year as visitors reflect on the devastation in Japan. &nbsp; Many of the trees celebrated in the festival were donated by Japan 98 years ago. &nbsp; However, D.C. is determined to return the generosity; this year&#8217;s festival will be highlighted by a \u201cStand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898406,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881185\/revisions\/98898406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}