{"id":2907,"date":"2009-08-24T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2009-08-24T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T07:02:50","slug":"a-case-of-the-human-condition-in-your-face-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-in-your-face-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case of the Human Condition: In Your Face Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10103\" title=\"orchid-farm-thailand-magenta\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/orchid-magenta-200507-thailand-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"Magenta orchid growing in orchid farm in Thailand. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10104\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10104\" title=\"orchid-farm-thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/orchids-purple-and-magenta-2005-07-thailand-435x580-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and magenta orchids blooming at an orchid farm in thailand. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchids . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing I can say about these orchids.<\/p>\n<p>Except that they were growing\u00a0in Thailand, a farm, where there were so many feats of blossoming splendor\u00a0that <!--more-->by tour&#8217;s end Jon, Christina and I were wailing, &#8220;No! Please! Not another stupendously beautiful\u00a0orchid! Get me out of here! Take me to the\u00a0snake ranch!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where, of course, the snakes were beautiful too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Another flower story &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2010\/04\/11\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-the-trouble-with-daffodils\/\">&#8220;The Trouble With Daffodils.&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10120\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10120\" title=\"orchid-farm-thailand-purple-blossom\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/orchid-farm-thailand-purple-blossom-580x372.jpg\" alt=\"purple orchid blooming in a thai orchid farm. photo by bf newhall\" width=\"580\" height=\"372\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">. . . and more orchids. Photos by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/08\/24\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-in-your-face-orchids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/08\/24\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-in-your-face-orchids\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10103 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/orchid-magenta-200507-thailand-580x435-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Magenta orchid growing in orchid farm in Thailand. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stupendously, outrageously beautiful orchids. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/08\/24\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-in-your-face-orchids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[399,82,400,401,33],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-beautiful-orchids","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-snake-ranch-thailand","tag-thailand-orchid-farm","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}