{"id":725,"date":"2017-06-03T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2017-06-03T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:04:26","slug":"cherry-blossoms-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossoms in Bloom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170326_172335-e1496505595992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-727 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170326_172335-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>My timing was perfect.\u00a0 I arrived in our nation&#8217;s capital on March 25, 2017 and sure enough, the highly celebrated cherry blossoms were in bloom!\u00a0 Google says it is 1.6 miles from my hotel at Dupont Circle to the blooms on the Washington Mall.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s a vast space and at the end of the day my tracker logged 17,863 steps!<\/p>\n<p>It was well worth the walk.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/cherryblossomwatch.com\/national-cherry-blossom-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 National Cherry Blossom Festival<\/a> will be held <strong>March 20 through April 15<\/strong>. The Cherry Blossom Parade is scheduled for Saturday, April 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-725-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170326_110832.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170326_110832.mp4\">http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170326_110832.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My timing was perfect.\u00a0 I arrived in our nation&#8217;s capital on March 25, 2017 and sure enough, the highly celebrated cherry blossoms were in bloom!\u00a0 Google says it is 1.6 miles from my hotel at Dupont Circle to the blooms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=725\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}