{"id":10303,"date":"2011-11-08T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2012-01-02T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T17:55:43","slug":"aos-moving-to-coral-gables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/aos-moving-to-coral-gables\/","title":{"rendered":"AOS Moving to Coral Gables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/11\/02\/2484467\/orchid-group-moving-to-fairchild.html\" target=\"_blank\">The American Orchid Society (AOS) is moving to Coral Gables.<\/a> For years, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.org\/default.aspx?id=1\" target=\"_blank\">AOS<\/a> has had a home and orchid garden in Delray Beach, Florida. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/palm-beach\/delray-beach\/fl-orchid-society-miami-2-20111103,0,5763521.story\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Recession has dealt a blow to the society&#8217;s finances, so they need to sell their property and move.<\/a> Fortunately, they&#8217;ve found a new home at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairchildgarden.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden<\/a> just outside of Miami. \u201cThe missions of AOS and Fairchild Garden are perfectly aligned,\u201d said Ron McHatton, the AOS&#8217;s chief operating officer. \u201cWith Fairchild\u2019s international reputation, we have found a financially strong, solid strategic partner equally focused on horticulture, education and conservation.\u201d The AOS will move its headquarters and its world-class orchid collection by March of next year. Many orchids will be displayed in a new conservatory opening at Fairchild in December 2012. Both groups will remain independent, and the AOS will continue to publish its monthly <em>Orchids<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Orchid Society (AOS) is moving to Coral Gables. For years, the AOS has had a home and orchid garden in Delray Beach, Florida. The Great Recession has dealt a blow to the society&#8217;s finances, so they need to sell their property and move. Fortunately, they&#8217;ve found a new home at Fairchild Tropical Botanic [&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":[13,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-conservation","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","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=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10333,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/10333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}