{"id":16978,"date":"2013-10-07T05:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=16978"},"modified":"2013-10-16T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T17:58:37","slug":"the-nodding-ladies-tresses-orchid-ever-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/the-nodding-ladies-tresses-orchid-ever-young\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nodding Ladies\u2019 Tresses Orchid, Ever Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/04\/the-nodding-ladies-tresses-orchid-ever-young\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports on Nodding Ladies&#8217; Tresses, a native orchid bringing beauty to New York City.<\/a> With twisting spirals of sparkling white flowers, Nodding Ladies&#8217; Tresses share the graceful beauty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/spiranthes\/\">the related Spiranthes which I grow<\/a>. &#8220;Sit among them for a few quiet moments and a bumblebee or a honeybee will land at the bottom of a flower stem and wend its way upward, climbing the flowers like stairs, guided by the gracefully twisting flower spike.&#8221; Hidden in wet meadows or behind poison ivy vines, Nodding Ladies&#8217; Tresses are tougher than they look. Their white spires can even survive the tough streets of the big city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on Nodding Ladies&#8217; Tresses, a native orchid bringing beauty to New York City. With twisting spirals of sparkling white flowers, Nodding Ladies&#8217; Tresses share the graceful beauty of the related Spiranthes which I grow. &#8220;Sit among them for a few quiet moments and a bumblebee or a honeybee will land [&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":[15,12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-fragrant-orchids","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978","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=16978"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16997,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions\/16997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}