{"id":2694,"date":"2014-04-16T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:53:20","slug":"cold-resistant-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2014\/04\/cold-resistant-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold-resistant blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may or may not blame climate change, but over the past several years weather has become unpredictable. Instead of four distinct seasons, we are moving towards sharp contrasts. It may be hot one week and freezing the next. Despite the late-spring gloom, these blossoms inspire people to hope that temperatures will leap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2013\/05\/vilnius-april-6-and-may-9\/\" title=\"Vilnius April 6 and May 9\">as last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sakura trees are blossoming close to Sugihara House in Kaunas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2701\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2701\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2701\" alt=\"Sakura\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai3-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai3-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai3.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sakura &#8211; click on the images to enlarge them<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Japanese tourists and local passers-by often stop to take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2699\" alt=\"Sakura\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing like Tokyo, of course, but at least a hint&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2697\" alt=\"Sakura\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local trees are doing no worse.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2703\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2703\" alt=\"Parodos hill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai4-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai4.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parodos hill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adding spring colors to this mosque:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2705\" alt=\"Mosque\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai5-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai5.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main street and its side streets are decorated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2707\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai6-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai6.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the river banks decorate themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2695\" alt=\"River\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai7-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai7-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ziedai7.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may or may not blame climate change, but over the past several years weather has become unpredictable. Instead of four distinct seasons, we are moving towards sharp contrasts. It may be hot one week and freezing the next. Despite the late-spring gloom, these blossoms inspire people to hope that temperatures will leap . Sakura trees are blossoming close to &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2014\/04\/cold-resistant-blossoms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[582,581,585,579,462,584,583],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-impressions","tag-beautiful","tag-blossom","tag-chiune-sugihara","tag-flowers","tag-kaunas-en","tag-sakura","tag-spring","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}