{"id":451,"date":"2013-04-19T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-04-22T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T18:39:39","slug":"bayside-students-make-their-mark-on-cherry-blossom-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/bayside-students-make-their-mark-on-cherry-blossom-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayside students make their mark on Cherry Blossom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stage banner used at the city&#8217;s recent Cherry Blossom Festival was made by Kumiko Gale&#8217;s Japanese language students at Bayside Middle School. The students learned how to write Japanese characters in class. The banner translates as &#8220;Cherry Blossom Festival&#8221; along with the school&#8217;s name in English and Japanese.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BaysideMiddle-Cherry-blossom-banner1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-452\" alt=\"Bayside Middle School students Rebecca Powell, Cassandria Keen, Andrew Wigglesworth and Cesar Benavides hold the completed banner that was used at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Redwing Park. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BaysideMiddle-Cherry-blossom-banner1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BaysideMiddle-Cherry-blossom-banner1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BaysideMiddle-Cherry-blossom-banner1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BaysideMiddle-Cherry-blossom-banner1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bayside Middle School students Rebecca Powell, Cassandria Keen, Andrew Wigglesworth and Cesar Benavides hold the completed banner that was used at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Redwing Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each year Gale has volunteered her students&#8217; work to be displayed at the celebration of Japanese culture held at Redwing Park. The Virginia Beach Parks &amp; Recreation, the Sister Cities Association of Virginia Beach, and the Japan Education Culture Center Inc. sponsor the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stage banner used at the city&#8217;s recent Cherry Blossom Festival was made by Kumiko Gale&#8217;s Japanese language students at Bayside Middle School. The students learned how to write Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}