{"id":130891,"date":"2020-03-24T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=130891&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-03-24T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:11:45","slug":"official-announcement-of-cherry-blossoms-for-fukuoka-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/official-announcement-of-cherry-blossoms-for-fukuoka-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Announcement of Cherry Blossoms for Fukuoka City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka Regional Headquarters of the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that on March 21 the flowers of the <em>Somei Yoshino<\/em> tree, one of the most popular varieties of <em>sakura<\/em>, came into bloom. While the news of <em>sakura<\/em> blooming has been recorded in four other areas of Japan, it was the first such announcement in Kyushu. The flowers are expected to peak within the next week to ten days. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/weathernews.jp\/s\/topics\/202003\/210065\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Weather News<\/a> 2020\/03\/21<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-1.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1st-cherry-blossom-WEB-001-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukuoka Regional Headquarters of the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that on March 21 the flowers of the Somei Yoshino tree, one of the most popular varieties of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":130910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-130891","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/130891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}