{"id":15111,"date":"2013-04-23T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=15111"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T04:37:28","slug":"a-childs-garden-of-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/a-childs-garden-of-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Child&#8217;s Garden of Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Daily Kos<\/em> offers a tropical respite from a chilly New York spring. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/04\/19\/1203177\/-A-Child-s-Garden-of-Orchids\" target=\"_blank\">Skilled photographer Eddie C shares his visual obsession with an overview of the New York Botanical Garden&#8217;s orchid show.<\/a> At the outset, he declares &#8220;For me the Orchid Show in the New York Botanical Garden is like Christmas is to a child.&#8221; Hunting for the perfect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phal<\/a> portrait, he captures the essence of the event with over three dozen magnificent photos. With colorful Phals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/lady-slippers\/\">Lady Slippers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidiums<\/a>, and more, he also manages to evoke the show&#8217;s floral saturation.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit ran for more than seven weeks in the\u00a0Enid Haupt Conservatory, a Victorian glasshouse in the Bronx. Some of the tree branches used in this year&#8217;s displays were knocked down by Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Kos offers a tropical respite from a chilly New York spring. Skilled photographer Eddie C shares his visual obsession with an overview of the New York Botanical Garden&#8217;s orchid show. At the outset, he declares &#8220;For me the Orchid Show in the New York Botanical Garden is like Christmas is to a child.&#8221; Hunting [&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":[13,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-events","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111","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=15111"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15111\/revisions\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}