{"id":10546,"date":"2010-03-17T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2012-03-06T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:26:21","slug":"dc-cherry-blossom-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/10546\/dc-cherry-blossom-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Green Ways to Celebrate DC&#8217;s Cherry Blossom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Earth Day approaching, we&#8217;ve discovered that the <strong>National Blossom Festival<\/strong> in Washington D.C. has chosen this year to supplant a pretty cause with a truly ecological one. From adrenaline-pumping activities to sustainable eats, here are six green ways to celebrate the annual spring event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong><strong>Ditch the car. Take the bus.<br \/>\n2.<\/strong><strong> Opt for sweet (sustainable) dreams.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n3.<\/strong><strong> Bike the blossoms.<br \/>\n4.<\/strong> <strong>A green appetite.<br \/>\n5. <\/strong><strong>In the greenlight.<br \/>\n6. Drink Greenly.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the <a title=\"Huffington Post Green story on Green Getaway to DC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lauren-elyse-matison\/6-green-ways-to-celebrate_b_502377.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full story<\/a> on Huffington Post&#8217;s Green section.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of the Mandarin Oriental<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Earth Day approaching, we&#8217;ve discovered that the National Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. has chosen this year to supplant a pretty cause with a truly ecological one. From adrenaline-pumping activities to sustainable eats, here are six green ways to celebrate the annual spring event. 1. Ditch the car. Take the bus. 2. Opt for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,316],"tags":[143,145,142,130,144,422,421],"class_list":{"0":"post-10546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-dc-destination","8":"category-weekend-getaways","9":"tag-bus","10":"tag-dining","11":"tag-festival","12":"tag-green","13":"tag-hotel","14":"tag-huffington-post","15":"tag-sustainable"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":15146,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/7755997_de612864a6-300x199.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}