{"id":1569,"date":"2026-03-27T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:00:21","slug":"cherry-blossom-watch-2026-northeast-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/cherry-blossom-watch-2026-northeast-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossom Watch &#8211; 2026 Northeast *Update*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite cold weather in February, cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. bloomed earlier than expected. The National Park Service declared peak bloom at the tidal basin March 26.  My early prediction (ten days ago) was off by four days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much like a dashboard GPS device might say &#8230; &#8220;Recalculating &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 26 : Peak bloom at Washington D.C.<br>March 31 : Kwanzan (late-season cherry) begin bloom at Washington D.C.<br>April 7 : Peak bloom at Philadelphia<br>April 15 : Kwanzan (late-season cherry) begin bloom at Philadelphia<br>April 19 : Peak bloom at Boston<br>April 27 : Kwanzan (late-season cherry) begin bloom at Boston<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite cold weather in February, cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. bloomed earlier than expected. The National Park Service declared peak bloom at the tidal basin March 26. My early prediction (ten days ago) was off by four days. Much like a dashboard GPS device might say &#8230; &#8220;Recalculating &#8230;&#8221; March 26 : Peak bloom at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,20,31],"tags":[269,268,228,211],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowerphoto","category-nature","category-photo","category-seasonal","tag-cherryblossom","tag-cherrytree","tag-hanami","tag-sakura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}