{"id":19341,"date":"2022-04-13T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=19341"},"modified":"2022-06-06T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:01:58","slug":"cherry-blossoms-at-branch-brook-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2022\/04\/13\/cherry-blossoms-at-branch-brook-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry blossoms at Branch Brook Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drove two hours each way to visit Branch Brook Park in NJ. \u201cWith more than 5,200 trees, Branch Brook Park in Newark is the country&#8217;s largest collection of Japanese cherry blossom trees.\u201d The 360-acre park was designed by the Olmsted brothers in 1895. Felt like I was in the center of a water color painting. For lunch stopped over in Paterson and had Turkish red lentil soup and koftas at Toros. 70F and sunny. Heaven &lt;3<br \/><br \/>#branchbrookpark #branchbrookparknj #branchbrook #torosrestaurant #paterson #newark #cherryblossoms #japanesecherryblossoms #cherryblossomtrees #spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277771877_10223984266766907_562013888876327749_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277771877_10223984266766907_562013888876327749_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277771877_10223984266766907_562013888876327749_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277771877_10223984266766907_562013888876327749_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277761233_10223984266966912_4377564512545205951_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277761233_10223984266966912_4377564512545205951_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277761233_10223984266966912_4377564512545205951_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277761233_10223984266966912_4377564512545205951_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277809376_10223984266846909_8702080662286638627_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277809376_10223984266846909_8702080662286638627_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277809376_10223984266846909_8702080662286638627_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277809376_10223984266846909_8702080662286638627_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277794727_10223984266926911_5073673458050926170_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277794727_10223984266926911_5073673458050926170_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277794727_10223984266926911_5073673458050926170_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/277794727_10223984266926911_5073673458050926170_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drove two hours each way to visit Branch Brook Park in NJ. \u201cWith more than 5,200 trees, Branch Brook Park in Newark is the country&#8217;s largest collection of Japanese cherry blossom trees.\u201d The 360-acre park was designed by the Olmsted brothers in 1895. Felt like I was in the center of a water color painting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2022\/04\/13\/cherry-blossoms-at-branch-brook-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cherry blossoms at Branch Brook Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19346,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19341\/revisions\/19346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}