{"id":3890,"date":"2010-06-21T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:41:34","slug":"summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To honor today&#8217;s summer solstice, here are a few sunny-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallias<\/a>. While we enjoy long hours of daylight in the northern half of the planet, plants enjoy the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu\/climate_projects_05\/productivity\/Photosynthesis.html\" target=\"_blank\">photosynthesize<\/a> a little longer. Incredible flowers like these are the result. Even if you&#8217;re having a hectic Monday, I hope you can take a few moments to savor these mini-miracles as promise of the possibilities of summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_princeps_Golden_Gate_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3892\" title=\"Masdevallia close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_princeps_Golden_Gate_640px-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia close up\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_princeps_Golden_Gate_640px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_princeps_Golden_Gate_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_princeps_Golden_Gate_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_Copper_Angel_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3891\" title=\"Masdevallia close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_Copper_Angel_640px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia close up\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_Copper_Angel_640px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_Copper_Angel_640px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_Copper_Angel_640px.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3893\" title=\"Masdevallia close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_800px-96x128.jpg\" alt=\"Masdevallia close up\" width=\"96\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_800px-96x128.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_800px-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Masdevallia_800px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why I&#8217;m honoring the summer solstice with cool-growing Masdevallias, then you&#8217;ve probably never experienced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiacoastline.org\/pictures\/golden-gate-fog-medium.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco&#8217;s summer fog<\/a>. While we often have sunny days and yes, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/offshore-flow\/\">heat waves<\/a>, the vast, chilly Northern Pacific is just a few miles away. Our natural air-conditioning makes these orchids some of our local icons. For those of you already sweltering in summer heat, don&#8217;t worry &#8212; there are lots of sunny-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vandas<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To honor today&#8217;s summer solstice, here are a few sunny-looking Masdevallias. While we enjoy long hours of daylight in the northern half of the planet, plants enjoy the ability to photosynthesize a little longer. Incredible flowers like these are the result. Even if you&#8217;re having a hectic Monday, I hope you can take a few [&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":[15,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}