{"id":700,"date":"2009-08-04T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T22:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/whorled-news\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:49:44","slug":"whorled-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/whorled-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Whorled News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news is always welcome in the battle for orchid conservation. I was happy to see <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2009\/082009\/08042009\/483681\">a story in a Virginia newspaper<\/a> about changes made in a hospital&#8217;s construction to save a native orchid found on the grounds. The Small Whorled Pogonia is one of the rarest orchids in North America, ranging from Ontario and Maine south to Georgia. The building will be named after the endangered orchid, hopefully providing even more awareness of its plight. This may seem like an extreme measure for one plant, but as the article points out, protecting one plant&#8217;s habitat can help other endangered species also.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about orchids that are native to the USA and Canada, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0881927201?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0881927201\">Wild Orchids Across North America<\/a> is a great read, and has a chapter devoted to the Small Whorled Pogonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news is always welcome in the battle for orchid conservation. I was happy to see a story in a Virginia newspaper about changes made in a hospital&#8217;s construction to save a native orchid found on the grounds. The Small Whorled Pogonia is one of the rarest orchids in North America, ranging from Ontario and [&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":[14,21,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-conservation","category-in-the-news","category-orchids-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}