{"id":4232,"date":"2011-04-11T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2021-05-30T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T03:14:12","slug":"neighborhood-in-bloom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CherryTree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"CherryTree\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CherryTree.jpg\" alt=\"CherryTree\" width=\"432\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To give the dog his four daily walks is no fun for anybody, including the dog, when it\u2019s under the blazing August sun or an icy November rain. But what a pleasure it is in spring, when each walk brings a surprise, and the buds of a morning walk have unfolded into pale pink blossom by afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sketch of a neighborhood tree from our homeschooling Botany block.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to plant a tree in your DC garden this spring, Casey Trees, which was founded in 2002 to protect the city\u2019s tree canopy, is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseytrees.org\/planting\/tree-help\/rebate\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">offering a rebate of up to $50 per tree<\/span><\/a> (three trees maximum). Now is the time to ensure the cool, leafy green shade of summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Today is the birthday of Washington, DC carpenter and builder Harry Wardman (1872-1938), who is responsible for many of our neighborhood\u2019s houses (although once he achieved success he no longer wielded the hammer personally). For a picture and bio, please see <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Wild About Harry<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CakeSprinkles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeSprinkles\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CakeSprinkles.png\" alt=\"CakeSprinkles\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Greg<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To give the dog his four daily walks is no fun for anybody, including the dog, when it\u2019s under the blazing August sun or an icy November rain. But what a pleasure it is in spring, when each walk brings a surprise, and the buds of a morning walk have unfolded into pale pink blossom<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4232\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[83,47,174,144,72,77,46],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-botany","tag-dc","tag-homeschooling","tag-print","tag-spring","tag-trees","tag-woodley-park"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9167,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}