{"id":4016,"date":"2012-04-29T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2012-05-08T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:28:32","slug":"epcot-flower-and-garden-festival-2012-america-japan-and-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"Epcot Flower and Garden Festival 2012 &#8211; America, Japan, and Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pixar Characters are out in force in America and Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-34.jpg\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-34\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woody and Buzz Lightyear are greeting guests to the America Pavilion courtyard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a special area to the rear of the America Pavilion. It&#8217;s an Alphabet Garden, each letter of the alphabet is represented by a few plants &#8211; the goal is to guess the names of the plants. Nora correctly guessed 23 out of 26!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-35.jpg\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-35\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Toy Story Alphabet Garden is to the rear of the America Pavilion<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-36.jpg\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-36\" width=\"585\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &quot;nasty&quot; pink bear - nora really doesn&#39;t like this character, maybe it&#39;s his accent<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The main characters from Cars 2 are featured in Japan. These topiaries were the centerpieces at the World Showplace last year, we remember that it took a while to get them out and in place after 2011 Flower and Garden Festival began.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-37.jpg\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-37\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tow Mater and Lightning McQueen<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-38.jpg\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-38\" width=\"640\" height=\"339\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The setting and presentation is very striking this year<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-epcot-flower-and-garden\/epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-39.jpg\" alt=\"epcot-flower-and-garden-2012-39\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The white sandy gravel really sets off these topiaries<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aladdin is missing from Morocco this year. Instead there are some &#8220;seed balls&#8221; reminiscent of the zodiacs displayed in past years around the &#8220;lagoon&#8221; in China.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none \" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/flower-and-garden-2012-missed-first-time\/2012-flower-and-garden-missed-first-time-4.jpg\" alt=\"2012-flower-and-garden-missed-first-time-4\" width=\"375\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Display in Morocco<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pixar Characters are out in force in America and Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woody and Buzz Lightyear are greeting guests to the America Pavilion courtyard<\/p>\n<p>There is a special area to the rear of the America Pavilion. It&#8217;s an Alphabet Garden, each letter of the alphabet is represented by a few plants &#8211; the goal is <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=4016\">Epcot Flower and Garden Festival 2012 &#8211; America, Japan, and Morocco<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epcot-flower-garden-festival","tag-epcot-theme-park","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}