{"id":296250,"date":"2014-03-29T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=296250"},"modified":"2014-03-31T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:57:04","slug":"planners-hopeful-about-azaleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=296250","title":{"rendered":"At Last &#8212; Azaleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=296251\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-296251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/thumb_azaleas-2-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_azaleas-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-296251\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Hometown folks and visitors were greeted with a welcome sight over the weekend: Tyler&#8217;s iconic azaleas have finally begun to bloom.  And officials at the Tyler Convention and Visitors Bureau are keeping their hopes up about further spring blooms during the 55th annual Azalea &#038; Spring Flower Trail.  CVB staffers blame the long winter for the flowers&#8217; late appearance.  You can view the CVB&#8217;s Facebook and VisitTyler Instagram pages to check the progress of the blooms.  The Azalea and Spring Flower Trail continues through April 6.  Click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visittyler.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.visittyler.com<\/a> for more information.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The blooms couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time, as the area recovered from Friday night&#8217;s rain, winds, and hail.  Crews stayed busy early in the weekend clearing brush that flew off trees, and there were some traffic signal outages.  KETK reports a number of East Texans were left without power, though the situation was continuing to improve during the weekend.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Hometown folks and visitors were greeted with a welcome sight over the weekend: Tyler&#8217;s iconic azaleas have finally begun to bloom. And officials at the Tyler Convention and Visitors Bureau are keeping their hopes up about further spring blooms during the 55th annual Azalea &#038; Spring Flower Trail. CVB staffers blame the long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=296250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At Last &#8212; Azaleas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 16:40:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296314,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296250\/revisions\/296314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}