{"id":126,"date":"2017-04-06T21:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-04-06T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:03:52","slug":"sakura-matsuri-annual-cherry-blossom-festival-at-bbg-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/sakura-matsuri-annual-cherry-blossom-festival-at-bbg-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakura Matsuri &#8211;  Annual Cherry Blossom Festival at BBG &#8211; NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden known as Sakura Matsuri, starts Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30, 2017 | 10 a.m.\u20136 p.m. The festival offers over 60 events and performances that celebrate traditional and contemporary Japanese culture. The festival also marks the end of &#8220;hanami&#8221;, the Japanese cultural tradition of enjoying each moment of the cherry blossom season.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbg.org\/collections\/cherries\" target=\"_blank\">Cherry Blossoms at BBG<\/a>\u00a0also!<\/p>\n<p>Get your tickets\u00a0and more info for the Sakura Matsuri:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbg.org\/visit\/event\/sakura_matsuri_2017\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-69\" src=\"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/click-for-more-info-button.png\" alt=\"CLICK FOR MORE INFO\" width=\"249\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/click-for-more-info-button.png 357w, https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/click-for-more-info-button-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden known as Sakura Matsuri, starts Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30, 2017 | 10 a.m.\u20136 p.m. The festival offers over 60 events and performances that celebrate traditional and contemporary Japanese culture. The festival also marks the end of &#8220;hanami&#8221;, the Japanese cultural tradition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[126,122,123,124,125],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touramericanyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}