{"id":7632,"date":"2016-03-27T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2016-03-27T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:59:45","slug":"prunus-x-yedoensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/prunus-x-yedoensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Prunus \u00d7 yedoensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7635\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-tree-tourists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-tree-tourists.jpg\" alt=\"snap\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-tree-tourists.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-tree-tourists-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-tree-tourists-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D.C. packed above and below with tourists filling phone memory with cherry blossoms.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7634\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-blossom-beaver-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-blossom-beaver-sign.jpg\" alt=\"civility instruction\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-blossom-beaver-sign.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-blossom-beaver-sign-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-cherry-blossom-beaver-sign-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a ceremony on March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two of these trees on the north bank of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Cherry_Blossom_Festival\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n(March 26, 2016, Mr. Beaver&#8217;s call for civility was ignored. At least one tree was broken by climbers and stripped of flowers for personal adornment.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7637\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-Cherry-blossoms-monument1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-Cherry-blossoms-monument1.jpg\" alt=\"grey and green touristinfrastructure\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-Cherry-blossoms-monument1.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-Cherry-blossoms-monument1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-Cherry-blossoms-monument1-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/23\/nineteen\/\" target=\"_blank\">were once interested<\/a> in the Environment, witness Teddy Roosevelt and National Parks, Dick Nixon and the EPA. What happened?<br \/>\nIn 1965 Democrat Lady Bird Johnson accepted a bunch more Yoshino trees from the Japanese Government. They were planted on the grounds of the Washington Monument.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7636\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-family-selfie-stick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-family-selfie-stick.jpg\" alt=\"Couple on the tidal pool.\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-family-selfie-stick.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-family-selfie-stick-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160326-family-selfie-stick-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many many selfie sticks in action on the perimeter of the Tidal Basin..<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-flora","category-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}