{"id":1007,"date":"2009-10-15T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2010-05-02T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:23:39","slug":"royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles has called for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/people\/royalwatch\/news\/article_1507266.php\/Prince-Charles-supports-flowers\">urgent protection for British wildflowers, including native British orchids<\/a>. His call comes after release of a report by the conservation charity <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plantlife\">Plantlife<\/a>, titled &#8220;The Ghost Orchid Declaration.&#8221; (By the way, the ghost orchid in Britain shares a common name with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/11\/ghost-orchid\/\">the ghost orchid I&#8217;ve written about in Florida<\/a>, but they&#8217;re actually very different species.) The report raises an alarm that hundreds of species of wildflowers are in danger, and worries that the government neglects wildflowers in its environmental policies. Existing British laws haven&#8217;t stopped the loss of native wildflowers from intensive farming, climate change, and habitat destruction. As a result, British orchids such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">lady slippers<\/a> are in danger of dying out. With no time to lose, at least the wildflowers have royalty in their corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles has called for urgent protection for British wildflowers, including native British orchids. His call comes after release of a report by the conservation charity Plantlife, titled &#8220;The Ghost Orchid Declaration.&#8221; (By the way, the ghost orchid in Britain shares a common name with the ghost orchid I&#8217;ve written about in Florida, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}