{"id":14158,"date":"2013-02-07T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2013-03-29T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:02:37","slug":"orchid-festival-returns-to-kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/orchid-festival-returns-to-kew-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Festival Returns to Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/visit-kew-gardens\/whats-on\/orchids-2013\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kew Gardens celebrates four weeks of <em>Orchids<\/em>.<\/a> Running February 9 &#8211; March 3, the world\u2019s preeminent botanical garden showcases &#8220;a sea of exotic orchids&#8221; in the\u00a0Princess of Wales Conservatory near London. Kew&#8217;s extensive orchid collections fill the festival with lush, tropical beauty. Besides offering a great escape from dreary winter weather, the event provides a romantic backdrop for Valentine&#8217;s celebrations. Tickets can be purchased in advance online.<\/p>\n<p>Kew is also offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/visit-kew-gardens\/whats-on\/orchids-for-beginners-20feb2013.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Orchids for Beginners,&#8221;<\/a> a one day course on February 20 which covers orchid care basics. Space is limited for the class, so register before it fills up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kew Gardens celebrates four weeks of Orchids. Running February 9 &#8211; March 3, the world\u2019s preeminent botanical garden showcases &#8220;a sea of exotic orchids&#8221; in the\u00a0Princess of Wales Conservatory near London. Kew&#8217;s extensive orchid collections fill the festival with lush, tropical beauty. Besides offering a great escape from dreary winter weather, the event provides a [&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":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158","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=14158"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14843,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions\/14843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}