{"id":11060,"date":"2012-01-27T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2012-04-27T07:52:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:52:24","slug":"the-orchid-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/the-orchid-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchid Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fitting enough for February&#8217;s &#8220;Obsession Issue&#8221; of <em>Smithsonian<\/em> magazine, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/The-Orchid-Olympics.html?c=y&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">an engaging article about &#8220;The Orchid Olympics.&#8221;<\/a> Last November&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/20th-world-orchid-conference\/\">World Orchid Conference in Singapore<\/a> attracted over 300,000 visitors from 55 countries. Don&#8217;t miss the Smithsonian&#8217;s superb video tour of the event, highlighting the prize-winning Orchid Society of Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=1iZ2hiMzop6u2QdFnrcrGLMbg1GEiKly&amp;width=512&amp;height=288&amp;embedCode=1iZ2hiMzop6u2QdFnrcrGLMbg1GEiKly&amp;video_pcode=VmM2U6ccX_RqI0rIzEgAxHoRsgRL&amp;autoplay=0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/multimedia\/photos\/?c=y&amp;articleID=137275053\" target=\"_blank\">check out the astonishing photographs of JG Bryce<\/a>. He captured thousands of pictures at the conference, and then digitally processed them to bring out depth and focus. Individual flowers stand against white backgrounds, and appear almost in 3D. Bryce&#8217;s work requires an obsessive attention to detail which fits in nicely with the Orchid Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitting enough for February&#8217;s &#8220;Obsession Issue&#8221; of Smithsonian magazine, there&#8217;s an engaging article about &#8220;The Orchid Olympics.&#8221; Last November&#8217;s World Orchid Conference in Singapore attracted over 300,000 visitors from 55 countries. Don&#8217;t miss the Smithsonian&#8217;s superb video tour of the event, highlighting the prize-winning Orchid Society of Papua New Guinea. Then check out the astonishing [&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":[11,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-in-the-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","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=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11831,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}