{"id":362299,"date":"2026-04-03T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:46:09","slug":"22-extraordinary-photos-from-the-nat-geo-archives-jazz-in-japan-a-flurry-of-flamingos-and-a-sluggish-sloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362299\/","title":{"rendered":"22 extraordinary photos from the Nat Geo archives: jazz in Japan, a flurry of flamingos, and a sluggish sloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto in BloomPassersby walk over a bridge framed by cherry blossoms in full bloom in Arashiyama, Kyoto. Known in the country as sakura, the trees were brought to the United States in 1902 by David Fairchild, a food hunter for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. After a visit to Japan, he ordered 125 sakura trees for his own front yard in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The pink blossoms brought so many onlookers that Fairchild ordered 300 more as a gift to the city of Chevy Chase. In 1912, Japan gifted the trees to Washington, DC, where they were planted and have become a yearly attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Rinko Kawauchi, National Geographic Image Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyoto in BloomPassersby walk over a bridge framed by cherry blossoms in full bloom in Arashiyama, Kyoto. Known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-362299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}