{"id":30966,"date":"2018-10-06T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=30966"},"modified":"2018-10-13T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T01:22:09","slug":"the-century-long-scientific-journey-of-the-affordable-grocery-store-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/06\/the-century-long-scientific-journey-of-the-affordable-grocery-store-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Century-Long Scientific Journey of the Affordable Grocery Store Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-to-start-growing-orchids?utm_content=77929107&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> delves into a century of scientific advances which brought tropical orchids to your local grocery store.<\/a> At the start of the 1900&#8217;s, growers began to unravel the secrets of how to germinate orchid seed, such as the essential role of fungi. Biologists started to clone orchids in the 1950&#8217;s, which would transform the industry in coming years. By the 1970&#8217;s, Dutch and American researchers were discovering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Moth Orchids<\/a> made the perfect houseplants. Decades of continuing progress in hybridizing and science have helped bring down prices, and made Moth Orchids the most popular potted plants in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas Obscura delves into a century of scientific advances which brought tropical orchids to your local grocery store. At the start of the 1900&#8217;s, growers began to unravel the secrets of how to germinate orchid seed, such as the essential role of fungi. Biologists started to clone orchids in the 1950&#8217;s, which would transform the [&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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966","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=30966"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31030,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions\/31030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}