{"id":19652,"date":"2014-08-30T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T04:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=19652"},"modified":"2014-09-20T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:15:45","slug":"johannesburg-proud-to-host-orchid-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/30\/johannesburg-proud-to-host-orchid-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Johannesburg Proud to Host Orchid Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/lifestyle\/home-garden\/garden\/orchids-gold-in-the-green-age-1.1741812\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa will host the 21st World Orchid Conference (WOC21) next month.<\/a> Also known as the Orchid Olympics, WOC21 runs from September 10th &#8211; 14th in Johannesburg&#8217;s Sandton Conference Centre. The event is held every three years, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/20th-world-orchid-conference\/\">the last one in Singapore in 2011<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the biggest flower shows in the world, and attracts tens of thousands of visitors. The theme for this year is &#8220;Orchids: Gold in the Green Age,&#8221; tying into the area&#8217;s gold-mining history. Apart from WOC21, there will also be displays of South African plants, including cycads, aloes, proteas, and succulents. South Africa is home to a wide range of unusual orchids, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Disa_uniflora_800px.jpg\">Disas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/mini-stenoglottis\/\">Stenoglottis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/mystacidium\/\">Mystacidiums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/angraecum\/\">Angraecums<\/a>, and more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woc21.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check the WOC21 website for additional info.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will host the 21st World Orchid Conference (WOC21) next month. Also known as the Orchid Olympics, WOC21 runs from September 10th &#8211; 14th in Johannesburg&#8217;s Sandton Conference Centre. The event is held every three years, with the last one in Singapore in 2011. It&#8217;s one of the biggest flower shows in the world, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652","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=19652"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19809,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}