{"id":43746,"date":"2014-03-14T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=43746"},"modified":"2014-03-14T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:42:44","slug":"morning-eye-candy-evolutionary-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-evolutionary-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Evolutionary Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep an eye out for <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/exhibit-news\/darwins-garden\/darwins-star-orchid\/\">Darwin&#8217;s famed star orchid<\/a> when you visit <a title=\"Orchid Evenings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2014\/orchid-show\/evenings.php\"><em>Orchid Evenings<\/em><\/a> this weekend. You might even be able to make out the feature that made this bloom such an evolutionary puzzle for decades on end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"43751\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-evolutionary-star\/attachment\/mec-star-orchid\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;thebluroffice&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1393864176&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Darwin&#8217;s Star Orchid\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid-682x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43751\" alt=\"Darwin's Star Orchid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Darwin&#8217;s Star Orchid (<em>Angraecum sesquipedale<\/em>) in the <a title=\"Enid A. Haupt Conservatory\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/conservatory\/\">Conservatory<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep an eye out for one of Darwin&#8217;s most famed predictions during this year&#8217;s Orchid Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":43751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[146],"tags":[3069,4671,1547,1512,569,3819,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Star-Orchid.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bnA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43859,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746\/revisions\/43859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}