{"id":1040,"date":"2016-03-16T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2016-03-16T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T19:12:28","slug":"behold-art-being-painted-for-national-cherry-blossom-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Behold Art Being Painted for National Cherry Blossom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cherry Blossom Festival is such a beautiful and exciting time of year with Spring blooming around us and more than 1.5 million people celebrating!\u00a0 I am very honored to be serving on the board of the festival this year.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/perkasso-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1041 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/perkasso-2.jpg\" alt=\"perkasso 2\" width=\"205\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>We invite you to break away from the typical night out with a potent cocktail of creativity and social connection when you attend our event that is on the festival schedule:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Paint.Pasta_.Philanthropy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paint, Pasta &amp; Philanthropy<\/strong><\/a>!\u00a0 Plan to stop by Wednesday, March 23 at 5:30 pm to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DYzI69sWPHc\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Michael Perkins<\/a>, A.K.A. \u201cPerkasso\u201d paint a cherry blossom adorned DC landscape while you watch and sip a cocktail or glass of wine.\u00a0 This fresh work of art will be auctioned to the highest bidder, and the proceeds will go to a charity of the bidder\u2019s choice as well as to support the National Cherry Blossom Festival.\u00a0 Find out more about the festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cherry Blossom Festival is such a beautiful and exciting time of year with Spring blooming around us and more than 1.5 million people &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specials","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}