{"id":573897904,"date":"2025-03-31T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897904"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:56:04","slug":"cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/cherry-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Washington D.C. on Saturday. It was a warm spring day, the sort that promises a lot of mugginess in the capital. It was peak cherry blossom season. Everyone knew it. So crowded. <\/p>\n<p>This was the first time I&#8217;d been to D.C. since this monument was installed. It has a commanding view. And as you walk around the sculpture, it seemed the expression changed. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar36.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also much taller than I&#8217;d imagined. But that&#8217;s as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;d elbowed people out of the way, you got some nice views. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar37.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I kid, of course. Everyone was having a lovely time. Snippets of conversation floated through the air, like the kites flying everywhere, and the blossoms as they fell to the ground. I picked up sticks, because you never know when you&#8217;ll need a bit of cherry wood.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar38.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We walked down to the mall. The monument in the background, and perhaps the one place the capitol building doesn&#8217;t demand your attention. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar25\/mar39.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We met my god-sister-in-law (just go with it) and her brother for dinner. We were all in town for a concert. Usually, I put up a lot of these, but I put up a lot of these. This was the really touching moment. A show that&#8217;s being discontinued &#8212; because of its themes of inclusiveness, perish the thought &#8212; got two nights of attention, in the Friday show and the Saturday show, and they sang with Guster and the National Symphony Orchestra. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x9ibxoq\"\n    style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"\n    allowfullscreen\n    title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"\n    allow=\"web-share\"><br \/>\n  <\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>Artists, man. <\/p>\n<p>But that was only part of the weekend! More tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Washington D.C. on Saturday. It was a warm spring day, the sort that promises a lot of mugginess in the capital. It was peak cherry blossom season. Everyone knew it. So crowded. This was the first time I&#8217;d been to D.C. since this monument was installed. It has a commanding view. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,39,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-monday","category-music","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897905,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897904\/revisions\/573897905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}