{"id":4800,"date":"2010-09-19T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T05:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2011-08-10T08:16:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:16:57","slug":"american-orchid-society-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/american-orchid-society-2\/","title":{"rendered":"American Orchid Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For almost 90 years, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Orchid Society (AOS)<\/a> has promoted orchid enjoyment, education, research, and conservation. Now, like many of us, this great non-profit organization is struggling in the slow economy. If you&#8217;re not a member already, you can help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aos.org\/AM\/Template.cfm?Section=join\" target=\"_blank\">by joining the AOS<\/a>. Members receive benefits such as the award-winning magazine <em>Orchids<\/em>. Along with gorgeous photos, the monthly magazine is full of outstanding articles on a vast array of orchid topics.<\/p>\n<p>Membership perks also include coupons for orchids and supplies, access to extensive online orchid info, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahs.org\/events\/reciprocal_events_online_directory.htm\" target=\"_blank\">discounts at more than 200 botanical gardens<\/a>, and the satisfaction of supporting the AOS. Orchid lovers, from novices to experts, find AOS membership is well worth the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost 90 years, the American Orchid Society (AOS) has promoted orchid enjoyment, education, research, and conservation. Now, like many of us, this great non-profit organization is struggling in the slow economy. If you&#8217;re not a member already, you can help by joining the AOS. Members receive benefits such as the award-winning magazine Orchids. Along [&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":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9515,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/9515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}