{"id":3611,"date":"2026-03-27T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:53:07","slug":"cherry-trees-were-first-planted-in-washington-dc-in-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Trees Were First Planted in Washington, DC, in 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30515\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30515\" class=\"wp-image-30515 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cherry-Trees-e1774236765166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"231\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Cherry Trees<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cherry trees were first planted in Washington, DC, in 1912.<\/strong> First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda (the Japanese ambassador\u2019s wife) planted the first of three thousand trees. The original trees were a gift from Japan to the United States. Since then, some propagates from the trees have been sent back to Japan. Other propagates have been planted around Washington, DC, to maintain the lineage. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/cherryblossom\/history-of-the-cherry-trees.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cherry Blossoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry trees were first planted in Washington, DC, in 1912. First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda (the Japanese ambassador\u2019s wife) planted the first of three thousand trees. The original trees were a gift from Japan to the United States. Since then, some propagates from the trees have been sent back to Japan. Other <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3611' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5367,3577,3578,5437,3579,490],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5367","tag-cherry-trees","tag-helen-herron-taft","tag-march-27","tag-viscountess-chinda","tag-washington","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30518,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/30518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}