{"id":160,"date":"2011-05-28T21:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T04:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/?p=160"},"modified":"2022-04-14T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:34:24","slug":"japanese-friendship-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/japanese-friendship-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Friendship Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Japanese Friendship Gardens &#8211; Phoenix, AZ<\/h2>\n<p>May 27, 20101<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos of our visit to the Japanese Friendship Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japanese Friendship Gardens in Phoenix.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1454.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Friendship Gardens in Phoenix.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tranquil place is next to a park that covers Interstate 10 for almost a mile as it goes through  downtown Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japanese Lantern\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1466.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Lantern\" width=\"408\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese Lantern made of cement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hundreds of very large and healthy Koi\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1472.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of very large and healthy Koi\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We especially enjoyed the hundreds of very large and healthy Koi in the pond.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beautiful trees, rocks and waterfalls\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1488.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful trees, rocks and waterfalls\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful trees, rocks and waterfalls are all over the park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One of hundreds of beautiful Koi\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1489.jpg\" alt=\"One of hundreds of beautiful Koi\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of hundreds of beautiful Koi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A few  of the hundreds of beautiful Koi.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1496.jpg\" alt=\"A few  of the hundreds of beautiful Koi.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few  of the hundreds of beautiful Koi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A lantern near a waterfall.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A lantern near a waterfall.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another lantern near a waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"waterfall\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1499.jpg\" alt=\"waterfall\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of many waterfalls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"waterfall in the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix, AZ.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1504.jpg\" alt=\"waterfall in the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix, AZ.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another view of the largest waterfall in the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix, AZ.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Koi with beautiful flowing fins.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1510.jpg\" alt=\"Koi with beautiful flowing fins.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of hundreds of  Koi with beautiful flowing fins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Koi looking for a handout\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1514.jpg\" alt=\"Koi looking for a handout\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of hundreds of Koi looking for a handout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hungry Koi looking for a handout.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1518.jpg\" alt=\"Hungry Koi looking for a handout.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About half way through our visit we bought them a bag of food for $1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Another hungry Koi\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1519.jpg\" alt=\"Another hungry Koi\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another hungry Koi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"feeding the Koi\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1537.jpg\" alt=\"feeding the Koi\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my wife feeding the Koi (and the ducks).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"feeding the Koi.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1555.jpg\" alt=\"feeding the Koi.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at the go after the food pellets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Koi feeding frenzy.\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1566.jpg\" alt=\"Koi feeding frenzy.\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A veritable feeding frenzy. Notice the duck getting in on the action.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Koi feeding frenzy\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1586.jpg\" alt=\"Koi feeding frenzy\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One more handful for the throng of hungry Koi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"beautiful park\" src=\"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/travels\/JapaneseGardens5-27-11\/110527_1594.jpg\" alt=\"beautiful park\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A peaceful ending to a lovely day at this beautiful park.<\/p>\n<h3>Please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:garthc@photosbygarth.com\">contact me<\/a> about prints or any other use of these photos.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Friendship Gardens &#8211; Phoenix, AZ May 27, 20101 Here are some photos of our visit to the Japanese Friendship Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona. This tranquil place is next to a park that covers Interstate 10 for almost a mile as it goes through downtown Phoenix. Japanese Lantern made of cement. We especially enjoyed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photosbygarth.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}