{"id":138,"date":"2009-03-30T22:33:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-04-12T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:57:54","slug":"washington-cherry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Washington Cherry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">Since we were in the neighborhood anyway, we dropped by Washington during the week-long Cherry Festival.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s not really much of a specific festival per se, more a series of unassociated events with the name &#8220;Cherry Festival&#8221; attached &#8211; as in the Cherry Festival Croquet Tournament.<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"potomac\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/potomac.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry trees along the Potomac\" width=\"387\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/potomac.jpg 387w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/potomac-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry trees along the Potomac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trees are thickest in the lagoon area between the Jefferson and Lincoln monuments.\u00a0\u00a0 We intended to visit at least one Smithsonian as well (American Indian) which required circling the National Mall about 5 times until a parking space opened up.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140\" title=\"washington_mon\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/washington_mon.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Monument\" width=\"390\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/washington_mon.jpg 390w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/washington_mon-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington Monument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we were in the neighborhood anyway, we dropped by Washington during the week-long Cherry Festival.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s not really much of a specific festival per se, more a series of unassociated events with the name &#8220;Cherry Festival&#8221; attached &#8211; as in the Cherry Festival Croquet Tournament. \u00a0 The trees are thickest in the lagoon area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington Cherry Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}