{"id":1566,"date":"2013-07-02T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2013-07-02T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:30:37","slug":"rose-city-fukuyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/rose-city-fukuyama\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose city Fukuyama"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class='gallery'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/rose-city-fukuyama\/fukuyama-rose-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fukuyama-rose-1-268x268.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/rose-city-fukuyama\/fukuyama-rose-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fukuyama-rose-2-268x268.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>\u00a0&#8220;Roses are beautiful. The hearts of those who love and raise roses are also beautiful.&#8221;&#8211; <strong>A City Developed Around Roses (Rose City Fukuyama)<\/strong>. \u00a0It all started in\u00a0the Spring of 1956, \u00a0when the residents planted about a thousand rose seedlings in the open areas of the park. The neighbors tended those seedlings day and night, and eventually a thousand bright red roses blossomed. Many people were touched by the enthusiasm of these residents, and in 1968 the park won the National Urban Beautification Prize for Excellence. A monument commemorating receipt of the prize stands in the park, inscribed with the words, <strong>&#8220;Here the flowers of goodwill open.&#8221;<\/strong> Resonating in the hearts of many, these words became the stimulus of the concept &#8220;A City Developed Around Roses.&#8221; \u00a0Now it boasts roughly 400,000 rose plants around the city and it\u00a0became the designated <strong>city flower.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Roses are beautiful. The hearts of those who love and raise roses are also beautiful.&#8221;&#8211; A City Developed Around Roses (Rose City Fukuyama). \u00a0It all started in\u00a0the Spring of 1956, \u00a0when the residents planted about a thousand rose seedlings in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/rose-city-fukuyama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}