{"id":10877,"date":"2012-01-07T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T01:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2012-04-30T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:01:51","slug":"greeting-the-year-of-the-dragon-with-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/greeting-the-year-of-the-dragon-with-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeting the Year of the Dragon with Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/year-334558-orchids-festival.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orchids are popular presents to welcome the Year of the Dragon<\/a>, which begins on January 23rd. For those celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_New_Year\" target=\"_blank\">the Chinese New Year<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T%E1%BA%BFt\" target=\"_blank\">Tet, the Vietnamese New Year<\/a>, orchids make elegant gifts for family and friends. They&#8217;re most favored in red or yellow, the traditional colors for the occasion. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiangardenmall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Asian Garden Mall<\/a> in Southern California, orchids are in abundance for the Flower Festival which kicks off the season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/year-334558-orchids-festival.html?pic=1\" target=\"_blank\">Over a dozen photos in the article<\/a> include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidiums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobiums<\/a>. These exotic flowers are new additions to old traditions. &#8220;In [Vietnam], orchids are expensive, so it&#8217;s not a typical gift for most people,&#8221; according to a festival visitor. &#8220;But here, it&#8217;s a lovely and reasonably-priced present.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchids are popular presents to welcome the Year of the Dragon, which begins on January 23rd. For those celebrating the Chinese New Year or Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, orchids make elegant gifts for family and friends. They&#8217;re most favored in red or yellow, the traditional colors for the occasion. At the Asian Garden Mall [&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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","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=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10894,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}