{"id":9253,"date":"2011-07-18T20:13:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2012-05-06T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T19:18:55","slug":"orchid-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/orchid-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/News\/AsiaOne+News\/Singapore\/Story\/A1Story20110714-289050.html\" target=\"_blank\">Excitement is building months ahead of the 20th World Orchid Conference (WOC) in Singapore.<\/a> Nicknamed the &#8220;Orchid Olympics,&#8221; the WOC occurs every 3 years. From November 13 &#8211; 20, it&#8217;s happening at the astonishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decomodes.com\/architecture\/luxury-design-of-marina-bay-sands-by-safdie-architects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marina Bay Sands<\/a>, where it&#8217;s expected to attract 300,000 visitors. The WOC includes a show with 50,000 orchids, vendors from 15 countries, and a conference featuring 140 speakers. The tiny isle of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singapore\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore<\/a> is one of world&#8217;s largest orchid exporters, and first hosted the conference in 1963. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20woc.com.sg\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\">Detailed WOC info is available at the official website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the world&#8217;s largest orchid event, conference attendees will be able to enjoy a special sneak-preview of the <a href=\"http:\/\/static.panoramio.com\/photos\/original\/53852367.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Flower Dome<\/a>. It&#8217;s a remarkable 3 acre (1.2 hectare) conservatory, one part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardensbythebay.org.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gardens by the Bay<\/a> complex, which is set to open officially next year. The Flower Dome will only be open for WOC ticket holders during the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement is building months ahead of the 20th World Orchid Conference (WOC) in Singapore. Nicknamed the &#8220;Orchid Olympics,&#8221; the WOC occurs every 3 years. From November 13 &#8211; 20, it&#8217;s happening at the astonishing Marina Bay Sands, where it&#8217;s expected to attract 300,000 visitors. The WOC includes a show with 50,000 orchids, vendors from 15 [&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-9253","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\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9284,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}