{"id":28621,"date":"2017-10-09T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=28621"},"modified":"2017-10-16T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:32:44","slug":"the-dracula-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/the-dracula-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dracula Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to go to a fantastic party and help orchids at the same time? Enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/conservatoryofflowers.org\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dracula Ball: Gala under Glass<\/em><\/a> on October 19th at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. This fundraiser celebrates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/sinister-draculas\/\">Draculas<\/a> &#8212; not the Transylvanian kind, but the Latin American orchids with the same name. Tickets start at $75 for the event, which highlights &#8220;the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile beauty of rainforests.&#8221; It&#8217;s for a great cause, supporting the Conservatory&#8217;s Highland Tropics Gallery with its important collection of rare, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/category\/cool-growers\/\">cool-growing<\/a> orchid species. The three Draculas in the pictures below are prime examples of the Conservatory&#8217;s crucial work, and include the famous Dracula vampira in the first photo. Celebrate the blooms on October 19th, and help rare orchids at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/dracula-ball-gala-under-glass-tickets-37345585652?aff=es2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dracula Ball<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_vampira_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28629 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_vampira_800px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Dracula vampira, orchid species flower, pleurothallid, Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_vampira_800px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_vampira_800px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_vampira_800px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_astuta_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28628 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_astuta_800px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Dracula astuta, orchid species flower, pleurothallid, Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_astuta_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_astuta_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_astuta_800px-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_astuta_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28627 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_800px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Dracula orchid flower, pleurothallid, Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_800px-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dracula_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to go to a fantastic party and help orchids at the same time? Enjoy the Dracula Ball: Gala under Glass on October 19th at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. This fundraiser celebrates Draculas &#8212; not the Transylvanian kind, but the Latin American orchids with the same name. Tickets start at $75 [&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":[21,15,11,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-cool-growers","category-events","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28621","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=28621"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28648,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28621\/revisions\/28648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}