{"id":24349,"date":"2016-03-03T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T05:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=24349"},"modified":"2017-04-01T09:53:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:53:30","slug":"3d-printed-flowers-reveal-orchid-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/3d-printed-flowers-reveal-orchid-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printed Flowers Reveal Orchid Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/02\/how-3d-printing-unraveled-dracula-orchid-s-disguise\" target=\"_blank\">New printing technology is helping scientists to understand orchids better.<\/a> Researchers used 3D printers to help create replicas of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/sinister-draculas\/\">Dracula flowers<\/a>, and experimented with these replicas to reveal how the orchids trick flies into pollinating them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New printing technology is helping scientists to understand orchids better. Researchers used 3D printers to help create replicas of Dracula flowers, and experimented with these replicas to reveal how the orchids trick flies into pollinating them.<\/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":[15,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news","category-quickpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349","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=24349"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24447,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349\/revisions\/24447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}