{"id":29230,"date":"2018-02-11T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=29230"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:50:29","slug":"the-orchid-i-want-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/the-orchid-i-want-for-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchid I Want For Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

At AboutOrchids, we love all types of orchids, but some really stand above the rest. For example, the stunning Lady Slipper ornament pictured below is a priceless antique, full of gold, diamonds, and rubies<\/a>. If it weren’t locked up in a museum, it could be a great Valentine’s Day gift.<\/p>\n

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\nDave spotted this beauty at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> when he had some free time after a recent work trip. It’s a remarkable hair ornament in the shape of a Lady Slipper<\/a> bloom, made in Belgium between 1905-7 by Art Nouveau<\/a> jeweler Philippe Wolfers. The piece is considered an exceptional example of a difficult enameling technique called plique-\u00e0-jour<\/em><\/a>, which creates a translucent effect. The Art Nouveau movement was fascinated by exotic flowers, and orchids are frequently found as artistic subjects.<\/p>\n

Of course, this one isn’t for sale, so here are tips for buying Valentine’s Day orchids which aren’t made from precious gems<\/a>. They’ll certainly be much more affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At AboutOrchids, we love all types of orchids, but some really stand above the rest. For example, the stunning Lady Slipper ornament pictured below is a priceless antique, full of gold, diamonds, and rubies. If it weren’t locked up in a museum, it could be a great Valentine’s Day gift. Dave spotted this beauty at […]<\/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":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230","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=29230"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29364,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions\/29364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}