{"id":3484,"date":"2016-04-05T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:20:50","slug":"warm-winter-could-mean-early-bloom-for-dcs-cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/2016\/04\/05\/warm-winter-could-mean-early-bloom-for-dcs-cherry-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm winter could mean early bloom for DC\u2019s cherry blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The National Cherry Blossom Festival is annual event in Washington, D.C. that celebrates the beautiful unfurling of pink and white petals on thousands of trees across our nation\u2019s capital. But unlike other annual events, the timing of the festival is highly dependent on winter weather and temperature, making it hard to predict peak bloom. This short article describes why 2016\u2019s peak bloom may come weeks earlier than anticipated. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/warm-winter-could-mean-early-bloom-dc%E2%80%99s-cherry-blossoms\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read &#8220;Warm winter could mean early blooms for DC&#8217;s cherry blossoms&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cherry Blossom Festival is annual event in Washington, D.C. that celebrates the beautiful unfurling of pink and white petals on thousands of trees across our nation\u2019s capital. But unlike other annual events, the timing of the festival is highly dependent on winter weather and temperature, making it hard to predict peak bloom. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":52,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":52,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}