{"id":33313,"date":"2019-09-23T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=33313"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T23:59:12","slug":"orchids-for-the-autumn-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/orchids-for-the-autumn-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids for the Autumn Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Phalaenopsis<\/a>\"Rhynchostele<\/a>\"Encyclia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Habenaria<\/a>\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a><\/p>\n

The earth has seasons because it’s tilted<\/a>. If the planet’s axis weren’t tipped over by 23.5\u00b0, we wouldn’t have long daylight hours over summer, or long hours of darkness over winter. If we were perfectly upright, we might have slight seasonal weather changes, but the climate probably wouldn’t vary much. Every day might be like today, with 12 hours of light and 12 hours of night. So that tilt matters a lot. It gives us our seasonal cycles, which drive so much natural beauty and variety. Celebrate today’s equinox, and our tilt, with these great orchid examples.<\/p>\n

\"Acropera<\/a>\"Lycaste<\/a>\"Vanda<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Laeliocattleya<\/a>\"Ascocenda<\/a>\"Barkeria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The earth has seasons because it’s tilted. If the planet’s axis weren’t tipped over by 23.5\u00b0, we wouldn’t have long daylight hours over summer, or long hours of darkness over winter. If we were perfectly upright, we might have slight seasonal weather changes, but the climate probably wouldn’t vary much. Every day might be like […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313","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=33313"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33348,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions\/33348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}