{"id":80,"date":"2008-05-01T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/i-can%e2%80%99t-kill-paper-orchids\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T22:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:50:30","slug":"i-can%e2%80%99t-kill-paper-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/i-can%e2%80%99t-kill-paper-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can\u2019t Kill Paper Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These orchids I can\u2019t kill, because they\u2019re part of a coloring book. In lieu of water and fertilizer, I\u2019ll need crayons. And while I appreciate the subject matter, I think I\u2019ll leave the coloring to a visiting niece or nephew. There\u2019s a helpful glossary in the back for all the big botanical words in the orchid descriptions. Since there\u2019s no pronunciation guide, though, we might be in trouble when the kids ask us how to pronounce \u201cCoelogyne pandurata.\u201d Pass the purple crayon, please.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0486245853?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0486245853\">Orchids of the World Coloring Book<\/a>, by Virginie Fowler Elbert, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1983.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=abouorch-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0486245853\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Orchid Coloring Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/orchids_of_the_world_coloring_book_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/orchids_of_the_world_coloring_book_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orchid Coloring Book\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Orchid Coloring Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/orchids_of_the_world_coloring_book_back640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/orchids_of_the_world_coloring_book_back640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orchid Coloring Book\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These orchids I can\u2019t kill, because they\u2019re part of a coloring book. In lieu of water and fertilizer, I\u2019ll need crayons. And while I appreciate the subject matter, I think I\u2019ll leave the coloring to a visiting niece or nephew. There\u2019s a helpful glossary in the back for all the big botanical words in 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}