{"id":833,"date":"2009-09-20T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:58:21","slug":"flower-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/20\/flower-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sunday-star-times\/features\/2879869\/Flower-power\">Flower Power<\/a> is the story of an orchid skeptic. In the article published in a New Zealand paper, the writer ventures from disinterest in orchids to finally falling under their spell. On the way, he wonders if orchids are a form of higher intelligence, worries about their possible sinister intentions, and marvels at their evolutionary prowess. It&#8217;s an enjoyable cautionary tale that &#8220;be it love or lunacy, [orchids] seem to enslave their fanciers.&#8221; If you&#8217;re in New Zealand, don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandmuseum.com\/1035\/wonderland:--the-mystery-of-the-orchid\">the Auckland Museum&#8217;s Mystery of the Orchid exhibition<\/a> that inspired the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower Power is the story of an orchid skeptic. In the article published in a New Zealand paper, the writer ventures from disinterest in orchids to finally falling under their spell. On the way, he wonders if orchids are a form of higher intelligence, worries about their possible sinister intentions, and marvels at their evolutionary [&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":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}